Instantons on S^4 and C P^2, rank stabilization, and Bott periodicity

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(99)00019-1MaRDI QIDQ1818709zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jim Bryan, M. Sanders

Publication date 26 June 2000

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9612008

zbMATH Keywords

Bott periodicitymoduli spaces of \(G_n\)-instantonsrank stabilization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Homology and homotopy of (Bmathrm{O}) and (Bmathrm{U}); Bott periodicity (55R45) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: We study the large rank limit of the moduli spaces of framed bundles on the projective plane and the blown-up projective plane. These moduli spaces are identified with various instanton moduli spaces on the 4-sphere and $cpbar$, the projective plane with the reverse orientation. We show that in the direct limit topology, these moduli spaces are homotopic to classifying spaces. For example, the moduli space of $Sp(infty)$ or $SO(infty)$ instantons on $cpbar$ has the homotopy type of $BU(k)$ where $k$ is the charge of the instantons. We use our results along with Taubes' result concerning the $koinfty$ limit to obtain a novel proof of the homotopy equivalences in the eight-fold Bott periodicity spectrum. We give explicit constructions for these moduli spaces.

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• Equivariant volumes of non-compact quotients and instanton counting
• Holomorphic bundles on the blown-up plane and the bar construction
• Moduli spaces of framed symplectic and orthogonal bundles on \(\mathbb{P}^2\) and the \(K\)-theoretic Nekrasov partition functions
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