Asymptotics of the Yang-Mills flow for holomorphic vector bundles over Kähler manifolds: the canonical structure of the limit (Q499888)

The author studies the limiting properties of the Yang-Mills flow associated to a holomorphic vector bundle \(E\) over an arbitrary compact Kähler manifold (\(X,\omega\)). In particular, it is shown that the flow is determined at infinity by the holomorphic structure of \(E\). Namely, if an integrable unitary reference connection \(A_0\) defining the holomorphic structure is fixed, then the Yang-Mills flow with initial condition \(A_0\), converges (away from an appropriately defined singular set) in the sense of the Uhlenbeck compactness theorem to a holomorphic vector bundle \(E_{\infty}\), which is isomorphic to the associated graded object of the Harder-Narasimhan-Seshadri filtration of (\(E,A_0\)). Moreover, \(E_{\infty}\) extends as a reflexive sheaf over the singular set as the double dual of the associated graded object. This is an extension of previous works of the author in the cases of 1 and 2 complex dimensions, and proves the general case of a conjecture of \textit{S. Bando} and \textit{Y.-T. Siu} [in: Geometry and analysis on complex manifolds. Festschrift for Professor S. Kobayashi's 60th birthday. Singapore: World Scientific. 39--59 (1994; Zbl 0880.32004)].