Reduction of the Hermitian-Einstein equation on Kählerian fiber bundles (Q1292772): Difference between revisions

Techniques involving dimensional reduction of an integrable system are important in many areas of mathematical physics. In this paper, the authors study a situation in which a dimensional reduction can be achieved despite the absence of global symmetry. They consider certain holomorphic vector bundles over a Kähler manifold which is itself the total space of a fiber bundle over a Kähler manifold. The main result (Theorem 8.9) establishes an equivalence between invariant situations to the Hermitian-Einstein equations on such bundles and general solutions to a coupled system of equations defined on holomorphic bundles over the base Kähler manifold. It is in this sense that the main result can be viewed as a dimensional reduction result. These results generalize the dimensional reduction results of García-Prada, which apply when the fiber bundle is a product and the fiber is the complex projective line. The authors also discuss equivariant and homogeneous bundles, they establish a generalization of the Borel-Leray spectral sequence for non-trivial coefficient bundles on the fiber and a Künneth formula in Hodge cohomology (with nontrivial coefficient). They introduce the notion of holomorphic triples and the relation with solutions of the coupled vortex equations, establishing a priori estimates for solutions and stability. Finally, the paper has an Appendix which accounts for the topological details needed in completing the description of the geometric structure of projectively flat bundles.