%0 Journal Article %T Birational equivalence of Higgs moduli %A Mridul Mehta %J Mathematics %D 2003 %I arXiv %X In this paper, we study triples of the form (E, theta, phi) over a compact Riemann Surface, where (E, theta) is a Higgs bundle and phi is a global holomorphic section of the Higgs bundle. Our main result is a description of a birational equivalence which relates geometrically the moduli space of Higgs bundles of rank r and degree d to the moduli space of Higgs bundles of rank (r-1) and degree d. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0311122v2