Moduli spaces of contact instantons

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2016.03.001MaRDI QIDQ266137zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Baraglia, Pedram Hekmati

Publication date 13 April 2016

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5140

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau manifoldcontact instantonKählerian manifoldmoduli spaceSasakian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Index theory (19K56) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: We construct the moduli space of contact instantons, an analogue of Yang-Mills instantons defined for contact metric $5$-manifolds and initiate the study of their structure. In the $K$-contact case we give sufficient conditions for smoothness of the moduli space away from reducible connections and show the dimension is given by the index of an operator elliptic transverse to the Reeb foliation. The moduli spaces are shown to be K"ahler when the $5$-manifold $M$ is Sasakian and hyperK"ahler when $M$ is transverse Calabi-Yau. We show how the transverse index can be computed in various cases, in particular we compute the index for the toric Sasaki-Einstein spaces $Y^{p,q}$.

Review text

The moduli spaces of self-dual and anti-self-dual contact instantons on compact \(K\)-manifolds are constructed. This construction is an analogue of Yang-Mills instantons for contact metric 5-dimensional manifolds.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIt is proved that if the contact manifold is Sasakian, then the moduli space of irreducible anti-self-dual contact instantons on this manifold carries a natural Kählerian structure. Furthermore, it is also proved that if the manifold has a transverse Calabi-Yau structure, then the moduli space carries a natural hyper-Kählerian structure.

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