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Let X = X¯ − D be a smooth quasi-projective curve. We previously constructed a Deligne–Hitchin moduli space with Hecke gauge groupoid for connections of rank 2. We extend this construction to the case of any rank r, although still keeping a genericity hypothesis. The formal neighborhood of a preferred section corresponding to a tame harmonic bundle is governed by a mixed twistor structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theory of twistors on foliated manifolds is developed. We construct the twistor space of the normal bundle of a foliation. It is demonstrated that the classical constructions of the twistor theory lead to foliated objects and permit to formulate and prove foliated versions of some well-known results on holomorphic mappings. Since any orbifold can be understood as the leaf space of a suitably defined Riemannian foliation we obtain orbifold versions of the classical results as a simple consequence of the results on foliated mappings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]