Gauge fields and quaternion structure (Q750917)

The author studies the geometry of the moduli space of Yang-Mills connections over a 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold (M,h) with quaternion structure. Consider a smooth principal bundle P over M with a compact simple Lie group as the structural group. A connection A is ASD (anti-self-dual) if its curvature operator is antiselfdual. On the moduli space \({\mathcal M}\) of ASD-connections a Riemannian metric is defined by a gauge-invariant \(L_ 2\)-inner product. The author introduces the momentum mapping and gets that the moduli space holonomy is symplectic when the base space holonomy is Sp(1). If the base holonomy is unitary then the moduli space holonomy is also unitary. The Riemannian metric on the moduli space of a hyperkähler manifold (i.e. a 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold M carrying a covariant constant quaternion structure) is Ricci flat. In the case of hyperkähler manifolds the quaternion bisectional curvature vanishes. Some vector bundles associated with a given bundle related to the considered principal bundle are considered and it is shown that these bundles admit canonically holomorphic structures together with an Einstein-Hermitian structure of zero trace Ricci curvature. Some remarks are given in the case of moduli space of SO(3)-ASD-connection.