Stable sheaves with twisted sections and the Vafa-Witten equations on smooth projective surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00229-014-0706-6MaRDI QIDQ2017732zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuuji Tanaka

Publication date 23 March 2015

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2673

zbMATH Keywords

stable sheaf with twisted sectionsVafa-Witten equations on smooth projective surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07)

Abstract: This article describes a Hitchin-Kobayashi style correspondence for the Vafa-Witten equations on smooth projective surfaces. This is an equivalence between a suitable notion of stability for a pair $(mathcalE,varphi)$, where $mathcalE$ is a locally-free sheaf over a surface $X$ and $varphi$ is a section of $extEnd(mathcalE)otimes{K}_X$; and the existence of a solution to certain gauge-theoretic equations, the Vafa-Witten equations, for a Hermitian metric on $mathcalE$. It turns out to be a special case of results obtained by Alvarez-Consul and Garcia-Prada. In this article, we give an alternative proof which uses a Mehta-Ramanathan style argument originally developed by Donaldson for the Hermitian-Einstein problem, as it relates the subject with the Hitchin equations on Riemann surfaces, and surely indicates a similar proof of the existence of a solution under the assumption of stability for the Donaldson-Thomas instanton equations described in arXiv:0805.2192 on smooth projective threefolds; and more broadly that for the quiver vortex equation on higher dimensional smooth projective varieties.

Review text

This paper concerns a set of gauge-theoretic equations on smooth projective surfaces, considered by \textit{C. Vafa} and \textit{E. Witten} [Nucl. Phys., B 431, No. 1--2, 3--77 (1994; Zbl 0964.81522)] in the study of the S-duality conjecture for \(N=4\) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. These equations can be seen as higher-dimensional analogue of the Hitchin equations on compact Riemannian surfaces. With \(X\) a given smooth projective surface and \(E\) a holomorphic vector bundle on \(X\), the main tool is a Donaldson-type functional on the space of Hermitian metrics on \(E\).

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