Compactness for \(\Omega\)-Yang-Mills connections (Q2113308)

On a Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n\), the authors extend the known analytic results on Yang-Mills connections to the class of connections called \(\Omega\)-Yang-Mills connections, where \(\Omega\) is a smooth, not necessarily closed, \((n-4)\)-form on \(M\). Special cases include \(\Omega\)-anti-self-dual connections and Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections over general complex manifolds. By a key observation, a weak compactness result is obtained for the moduli space of smooth \(\Omega\)-Yang-Mills connections with uniformly \(L^2\) bounded curvature, which can be improved in the case of Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections over general complex manifolds. A removable singularity theorem for singular \(\Omega\)-Yang-Mills connections on a trivial bundle with small energy concentration is also proven. As an application, it is shown how to compactify the moduli space of smooth Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections on unitary bundles over a class of balanced manifolds of Hodge-Riemann type. This class includes the metrics coming from multipolarizations, and in particular, the Kähler metrics. In the case of multipolarizations on a projective algebraic manifold, it is shown that the compactification of smooth irreducible Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections with fixed determinant modulo gauge transformations inherits a complex structure, from algebro-geometric considerations.