The generic \'{e}taleness of the moduli space of dormant $\mathfrak{so}_{2\ell}$-opers

Abstract

The generic \'{e}taleness is an important property on the moduli space of dormant $\mathfrak{g}$-opers (for a simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$) in the context of enumerative geometry. In the previous study, this property has been verified under the assumption that $\mathfrak{g}$ is either $\mathfrak{sl}_\ell$, $\mathfrak{so}_{2\ell -1}$, or $\mathfrak{sp}_{2\ell}$ for any sufficiently small positive integer $\ell$. The purpose of the present paper is to prove the generic \'{e}taleness for one of the remaining cases, i.e., $\mathfrak{g} = \mathfrak{so}_{2\ell}$. As an application of this result, we obtain a factorization formula for computing the generic degree induced from pull-back along various clutching morphisms between moduli spaces of pointed stable curves.