Kähler quantization of vortex moduli (Q1986546)

The paper under review deals with an application of geometric quantization to a gauge-theoretic setting in a way similar to the study of moduli of flat connections in relation to Chern-Simons and conformal field theory. The authors go beyond the framework of pure gauge theory and incorporate the coupling of the gauge field \(A\), i.e., a section in a principal \(G\)-bundle \(P\rightarrow \Sigma \), to a matter field \(\phi : \Sigma \rightarrow P\times _G X\), i.e., a section of an associate bundle with typical Kähler fibre \(X\). In fact, this study restricts to abelian gauge theory and line bundles by setting \(G=\mathrm{U}(1)\) and \(X=\mathbb{C}\).