Euler characteristics of SU(2) instanton moduli spaces on rational elliptic surfaces

DOI10.1007/S002200050687MaRDI QIDQ1809219zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kōta Yoshioka

Publication date 16 December 1999

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9805003

zbMATH Keywords

Euler characteristicinstanton modulirational elliptic surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Topological properties in algebraic geometry (14F45) Families, moduli, classification: algebraic theory (14J10) Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26) Elliptic surfaces, elliptic or Calabi-Yau fibrations (14J27) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81)

Abstract: Recently, Minahan, Nemeschansky, Vafa and Warner computed partition functions for N=4 topological Yang-Mills theory on rational elliptic surfaces. In particular they computed generating functions of Euler characteristics of SU(2)-instanton moduli spaces. In mathematics, they are expected to coincide with those of Gieseker compactifications. In this paper, we compute Euler characteristics of these spaces and show that our results coincide with theirs. We also check the modular property of Z_{SU(2)} and Z_{SO(3)} conjectured by Vafa and Witten.

Review text

A rational ellipic surface \(X\) is obtained by blowing up 9 points in \(\mathbb{P}^2\) which are complete intersection of 2 cubic curves and is endowed of an obvious elliptic fibration \(X \rightarrow \mathbb{P}^1\). The author gives a computation of the Euler characteristic of the Gieseker compactification of \(SU(2)\)-instanton moduli spaces for such surfaces and checks the modular property of \(Z_{\text{SU}(2)}\) and \(Z_{\text{SO}(3)}\) that has been conjectured by Vafa and Witten. The relevance of the result is mainly in that it shows that, up to holomorphic anomaly coming from \(E_2(\tau)\) and unknown terms coming from singular spaces, the generating functions of this Euler characteristic coincide with those that have been computed for topological Yang-Mills theory of rational elliptic surfaces.

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