Heat kernel and moduli space

DOI10.4310/MRL.1996.V3.N6.A3MaRDI QIDQ676118zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kefeng Liu

Publication date 8 September 1997

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/MRL.1996.V3.N6.A3

zbMATH Keywords

compact Riemann surfaceheat equation methodheat kernel on compact Lie groupsintersection numbersmoduli spacesprincipal bundlessymplectic volumes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Review text

The author describes a proof of the formulas of \textit{E. Witten} [Commun. Math. Phys. 141, No. 1, 153-209 (1991; Zbl 0762.53063); J. Geom. Phys. 9, No. 4, 303-368 (1992; Zbl 0768.53042)] about the symplectic volumes and the intersection numbers of the moduli spaces of principal bundles on a compact Riemann surface. It is known that these formulas give all the information needed for the Verlinde formula. The main idea of the proof is to use the heat kernel on compact Lie groups, in a way very similar to the heat kernel proof of the Atiyah-Singer index formula and the Atiyah-Bott fixed point formula. The Reidemeister torsion comes into the picture, through a beautiful observation of Witten, as the symplectic volume of the moduli space. It plays the role similar to that played by the Ray-Singer torsion in the path-integral computations on the space of connections.

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• Trace functionals on noncommutative deformations of moduli spaces of flat connections
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