Geometry of the ends of the moduli space of anti-self-dual connections

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214457548MaRDI QIDQ1914747zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Paul M. N. Feehan

Publication date 11 February 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.05741

zbMATH Keywords

anti-self-dual connectionsdifferential geometric structuresmoduli space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: Let $X$ be a closed, four-dimensional, oriented, smooth manifold with a Riemannian metric, $g$, let $G$ be a compact Lie group, and $P$ be a principal $G$ bundle over $X$. D. Groisser and T. Parker (1987, 1989) and S. K. Donaldson (1990) conjectured that the moduli space of $g$-anti-self-dual connections on $P$, endowed with the $L^2$ metric, has finite volume and diameter. The purpose of this article is to prove this conjecture under the following additional hypotheses. Suppose that $g$ is generic and $X$ is simply-connected. If (i) $G=SU(2)$ or $SO(3)$ and $b^{+}(X)=0$ or (ii) $G=SO(3)$ and $w_2(P)eq0$, where $w_2(P)$ is the second Stiefel-Whitney class of $P$, then we prove that the moduli space of $g$-anti-self-dual connections on $P$ has finite volume and diameter with respect to the $L^2$ metric. Our development of the bubble-tree compactification of the moduli space of $g$-anti-self-dual connections --- based on ideas of Sacks and Uhlenbeck for sequences of harmonic maps from the two-sphere (1981), Taubes (1988) for sequences of Yang-Mills connections, and Parker and Wolfson (1993, 1996) for sequences of pseudo-holomorphic maps --- provides one of the key technical tools used in the proof.

Review text

The author proves the conjecture formulated by \textit{D. Groisser} and \textit{T. Parker} [J. Diff. Geom. 29, No. 3, 499-544 (1989; Zbl 0679.53024)] and by \textit{S. K. Donaldson} [Lect. Notes Math. 1410, 145-160 (1989; Zbl 0705.53018)] about the finiteness of the volume and the diameter of the moduli space of irreducible \(g_0\)-anti-self-dual connections on a principal \(G\)bundle \(P\) over a \(C^\infty\) four-manifold \(M\) with a generic metric \(g_0\), endowed with the \(L^2\) metric \(g\) defined by \(g_0\). The result is established under the following hypotheses: The manifold \(M\) is closed, connected, oriented, simply connected and (i) \(G= \text{SU}(2)\) or \(G= \text{SO}(3)\) and the dimension of the maximal positive subspace of the intersection form of \(M\) is zero \((b^+(m)= 0)\) or (ii) \(G= \text{SO}(3)\) and the second Stiefel-Whitney class of \(P\) is not zero \((w_2(P)\neq 0)\).

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