Yang-Mills connections on quantum Heisenberg manifolds (Q2009320)

The authors investigate critical points and minimizers of the Yang-Mills functional \(YM\) on quantum Heisenberg manifolds \(D^c_{\mu\nu}\). A Yang-Mills connection is a compatible linear connection which is both a critical point and a minimizer of the Yang-Mills functional \(YM\). In this paper, the authors investigate Yang-Mills connections with constant curvature. Connections on the following classes of modules are considered: (i) Abadies's module \(\Xi\) of trace \(2\mu\) and its submodules, (ii) modules \(\Xi'\) of trace \(2\nu\), (iii) tensor product modules of the form \(PE^c_{\mu\nu}\bigotimes{\Xi}\), where \(E^c_{\mu\nu}\) is Morita equivalent to \(C\) and \(P\) is a projection in \(E^c_{\mu\nu}\). The authors show that every Yang-Mills connection \(\nabla\) on \(\Xi\) over\(D^c_{\mu\nu}\) with constant curvature has curvature of the form \(\Theta_\nabla(X,Y)\)= \(\Theta_\nabla(X,Z)=0\) and \(\Theta_\nabla(Y,Z)\)=\(\frac{\pi i}{\mu}Id_E \). Also, they show that Yang-Mills connections with constant curvature do not provide global minima but only local minima, which is done by constructing a set of compatible connections that are not critical points but whose values are smaller than those of Yang-Mills connections with constant curvature. Other results of the authors include: (i) an example of a compatible linear connection with constant curvature on \(D^c_{\mu\nu}\) such that the corresponding connection on an isomorphic module does not have constant curvature, and (ii) the construction of a compatible linear connection with constant curvature which neither attains its minimum nor is a critical point of \(YM\) on \(D^c_{\mu\nu}\). Futhermore, the authors construct: (iii) the Grasmannian connection on the projective modules \(\Xi'\) with trace \(2\nu\) over \(D^c_{\mu\nu}\) and compute its corresponding curvature, and (iv) tensor product connections on \(PE^c_{\mu\nu}\bigotimes{\Xi}\) whose coupling constant is \(2\nu\) and characterize the critical points of \(YM\) for this projective module.