The Dolbeault geometric Langlands correspondence for type A groups beyond the elliptic locus

Abstract

In this paper, we prove a Dolbeault geometric Langlands equivalence for $\GL_r$ and for the Langlands dual pair $\SL_r/\PGL_r$ over an open locus of the Hitchin base which strictly contains the elliptic locus. This open locus contains the points corresponding to spectral curves with at worst type $A$ singularities, without any restriction on the number of irreducible components. The Dolbeault geometric Langlands equivalence considered here is the one formulated in our previous work with Tudor Pădurariu, which links categorical Donaldson--Thomas theory with the geometric Langlands correspondence. It relates coherent sheaves on moduli stacks of semistable Higgs bundles to the limit category associated with the full moduli stack of Higgs bundles. The use of limit categories is essential beyond the elliptic locus, where the full Higgs moduli stack is no longer quasi-compact and contains infinitely many Harder--Narasimhan strata. The key step is to prove the Whittaker normalization conjecture over the locus of spectral curves with type $A$ singularities, following and extending the strategy developed in the author's proof of the $\GL_2$ case over the reduced spectral curve locus. As a consequence, we also obtain the Dolbeault geometric Langlands conjecture for $\SL_2/\PGL_2$ over the reduced spectral curve locus.