Moduli of Anti-Invariant Higgs Bundles

Abstract

We study the moduli of anti-invariant Higgs bundles as introduced by Zelaci. Using recent existence results of Alper, Halpern-Leistner and Heinloth we establish the existence of a separated good moduli space for semistable anti-invariant Higgs bundles. Along the way this produces a non-GIT proof of the existence of a separated good moduli space for semistable Higgs bundles. We also prove the properness of the Hitchin system in this setting.