Yang-Mills theory over surfaces and the Atiyah-Segal theorem

DOI10.2140/AGT.2008.8.2209zbMATH Open1240.19005arXiv0710.0681OpenAlexW3104888305MaRDI QIDQ1007187FDOQ1007187

Daniel Ramras

Publication date: 20 March 2009

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we explain how Morse theory for the Yang-Mills functional can be used to prove an analogue, for surface groups, of the Atiyah-Segal theorem. Classically, the Atiyah-Segal theorem relates the representation ring R(Gamma) of a compact Lie group $Gamma$ to the complex K-theory of the classifying space $BGamma$. For infinite discrete groups, it is necessary to take into account deformations of representations, and with this in mind we replace the representation ring by Carlsson's deformation $K$--theory spectrum $K(Gamma)$ (the homotopy-theoretical analogue of $R(Gamma)$). Our main theorem provides an isomorphism in homotopy $K_{*}(p{i}_{1}Sigma)isom{K}^{-*}(Sigma)$ for all compact, aspherical surfaces $Sigma$ and all $*>0$. Combining this result with work of Tyler Lawson, we obtain homotopy theoretical information about the stable moduli space of flat unitary connections over surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0681

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zbMATH Keywords

Morse theoryYang-Mills functionalunitary flat connectionsdeformation \(K\)-theoryAtiyah-Segal completion theoremaspherical surfacesHarder-Narasimhan stratification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connective (K)-theory, cobordism (19L41) Equivariant (K)-theory (19L47) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Topological (K)-theory (55N15)

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