The Yang-Mills flow and the Atiyah-Bott formula on compact Kähler manifolds (Q2804437)

In this paper, the author studies the limit behaviour of the Yang-Mills flow on a holomorphic vector bundle \(\pi: E \to X\) over a compact Kähler manifold \(X\), extending to the most general case some of his previous results on semi-stable bundles on compact manifolds [J. Reine Angew. Math. 709, 1--13 (2015; Zbl 1327.32033)].NEWLINENEWLINEMore precisely, he shows that along a Yang-Mills flow \(A_t\) on \(E\), the curvature endomorphism \(i \Lambda F(A_t)\) approaches in the \(L^2\)-norm an appropriate endomorphism with locally constant eigenvalues, completely determined by the slopes of the quotients of the Harder-Narasimhan filtration of \(E\). This is then used to obtain a sharp lower bound for the Hermitian-Yang-Mills functional, which can be considered as a generalisation to arbitrary dimensions of a formula by \textit{M. F. Atiyah} and \textit{R. Bott} [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A 308, 523--615 (1983; Zbl 0509.14014)].NEWLINENEWLINEIn addition to this, the author verifies a conjecture by Bando and Siu, proving that ``the limit bundle \(E_\infty\), which is defined outside an appropriate analytic bubbling set \(Z_{\mathrm{an}} \subset X\) and on which the Yang-Mills flow is known to converge to a limit connection \(A_\infty\), extends to all of \(X\) as a reflexive sheaf \(\widehat E_\infty\), which is isomorphic to the double dual \(\mathrm{Gr}^{HNS}(E)^{**}\) of the stable quotients of the graded Harder-Narasimhan-Seshadri filtration of \(E\).''