Quantizations of local surfaces and rebel instantons (Q2140253)

The aim of this paper is to clarify a specific aspect of the quantization of \(SU(2)\) instantons, by describing explicitly the effect that deformation quantization has on moduli spaces of instantons over noncompact complex surfaces. The main contribution is identifying those classical instantons which react badly to certain choices of quantization, by shooting off extra families of noncommutative instantons The authors construct explicit deformation quantizations of the noncompact complex surfaces \(Z_k\equiv Tot(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(-k))\) and describe their effect on moduli spaces of vector bundles and instanton moduli spaces. They introduce the concept of rebel instantons, as being those which react badly to some quantizations, misbehaving by shooting off extra families of noncommutative instantons. They show that the quantum instanton moduli space can be viewed as the étale space of a constructible sheaf over the classical instanton moduli space with support on rebel instantons. This paper is organized as follows. Section 1 is an introduction to the subject and describes some of the literature on the subject. In Sections 2, 3 and 4, the authors study the noncommutative deformation theory of the surfaces \(Z_k\). In Section 5, they review the theory of vector bundles on \(Z_k\) and their commutative deformations and discuss vector bundles on noncommutative deformations of \(Z_k\) in Section 6. The authors use the explicit expressions of star products obtained in Section 4 to show in Section 7 that purely noncommutative deformations have nontrivial moduli of vector bundles. Sections 8 and 9 present and describe some applications to noncommutative instantons.