PU(2) monopoles. I: Regularity, Uhlenbeck compactness, and transversality

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214461020zbMATH Open0998.57057arXivdg-ga/9710032OpenAlexW1607006788WikidataQ115173875 ScholiaQ115173875MaRDI QIDQ1807899FDOQ1807899

Thomas G. Leness, Paul M. N. Feehan

Publication date: 23 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the existence of perturbations for the PU(2) monopole equations, yielding transversality on the complement of the anti-self-dual or reducible solutions, and the existence of an Uhlenbeck compactification for the moduli space of solutions to these perturbed PU(2) monopole equations. In December 1994, V. Pidstrigach and A. Tyurin and then others proposed a method to prove Witten's conjecture concerning the relation between the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants of smooth four-manifolds. Their proposal uses a moduli space of solutions to the PU(2) monopole equations, which are a natural generalization of the U(1) monopole equations of Seiberg and Witten and the equation for anti-self-dual SO(3) connections, to construct a cobordism between links of compact moduli spaces of U(1) monopoles of Seiberg-Witten type and the moduli space of anti-self-dual connections, which appear as singularities in this larger moduli space. A basic requirement of this cobordism technique is the existence of an Uhlenbeck compactification for the moduli space of PU(2) monopoles and of generic-parameter transversality results for all the moduli spaces of PU(2) monopoles which appear in this compactification, on the complement of the anti-self-dual and U(1) solutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9710032

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zbMATH Keywords

Seiberg-WittenUhlenbeck bubbles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Topology of topological vector spaces (57N17)

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