Parabolic Hitchin connection

Abstract

In this paper, we present an algebro-geometric construction of the Hitchin connection in the parabolic setting for a fixed determinant line bundle. Our strategy is based on Hecke modifications, where we provide a decomposition formula for the parabolic determinant line bundle and the canonical line bundle of the moduli space of parabolic bundles. As a special case, we construct a Hitchin connection on the moduli space of vector bundles with fixed, not necessarily trivial, determinant.