Integrality of Hausel–Letellier–Villegas kernels

Abstract

We prove that the coefficients of the generating function of Hausel, Letellier, and Rodriguez-Villegas and its recent generalization by Carlsson and Rodriguez-Villegas, which according to various conjectures should compute mixed Hodge numbers of character varieties and moduli spaces of Higgs bundles of curves of genus $g$ with $n$ punctures, are polynomials in $q$ and $t$ with integer coefficients for any $g,n\ge 0$.