Instantons on \(n\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}_ 2\) (Q688597)

For a Hermitian surface there exists, as is well-known, the splitting of 2-forms into self-dual and anti-self-dual components: \(\Lambda_ +^ 2\otimes C= \Lambda^{2,0} \oplus \omega\Lambda^{00}\), \(\Lambda_ - ^ 2\otimes C= \ker \omega\Lambda: \Lambda^{1,1}\to \Lambda^{2,2}\), where \(\omega\) is a positive \((1,1)\)-form defined by the metric and the complex structure. It was Donaldson who showed the equivalence of moduli of anti-self-dual connections and stable holomorphic bundles on an algebraic surface [\textit{S. K. Donaldson}, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III. Ser. 50, 1-26 (1985; Zbl 0547.53019)]. In this paper it is shown that the same fact can be used to describe moduli of self-dual Yang-Mills connections (``Instantons'') on an oriented 4-dimensional manifold without complex structure. The proof of it may be summarized as follows. Let \(X\) be a compact complex surface biholomorphic to a blow-up of \(P_ 2\) \(n\) times, and let \(L_ \infty \subset X\) be a rational curve with self-intersection \(+1\). Let \(Y\) be a 4-dimensional manifold diffeomorphic to \(n\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}_ 2\) obtained by collapsing \(L_ \infty\) to a point \(y_ \infty\in Y\) and \(\overline{\pi}: X\to Y\) be the collapsing map. Then there exists a one-to-one correspondence between equivalence classes of self-dual Yang-Mills connections on a unitary bundle over \(Y\), and equivalence classes of homomorphic bundles \(E\) on \(C\) (isomorphic to \(\overline{\pi}^*E\)) whose restriction to \(L_ \infty\) is homomorphically trivial and is equipped with a compatible unitary structure.