Homotopy types of SU (n)-gauge groups over non-spin 4-manifolds

DOI10.1007/S40062-019-00233-4MaRDI QIDQ2274458zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tseleung So

Publication date 19 September 2019

Published in Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01931

zbMATH Keywords

gauge grouphomotopy typenon-spin \(4\)-manifoldprincipal bundleSamelson product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Function spaces in general topology (54C35) Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10) Classification of homotopy type (55P15) Loop spaces (55P35) Whitehead products and generalizations (55Q15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: Let $M$ be an orientable, simply-connected, closed, non-spin 4-manifold and let $mathcal{G}_k(M)$ be the gauge group of the principal $G$-bundle over $M$ with second Chern class $kinmathbbZ$. It is known that the homotopy type of $mathcal{G}_k(M)$ is determined by the homotopy type of $mathcal{G}_k(mathbb{CP}^2)$. In this paper we investigate properties of $mathcal{G}_k(mathbb{CP}^2)$ when $G=SU(n)$ that partly classify the homotopy types of the gauge groups.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a simple, simply connected compact Lie group and let \(M\) be a simply connected closed \(4\)-manifold. Let \(P_k\to M\) be a principal \(G\)-bundle classified by the characteristic element \(k\in \mathbb{Z}\cong \pi_3(G)\) and we denote by \(\mathcal{G}_k(M)\) the gauge group of \(P_k\). In this paper the author considers the classification problem of homotopy types of \(\{\mathcal{G}_k:k\in \mathbb{Z}\}\) when \(M\) is a non-spin \(4\)-manifold. Since it is known that there is a homotopy equivalence \( \mathcal{G}_k(M)\simeq \mathcal{G}_k(\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2)\times (\Omega^2G)^{d-1}\) if \(M\) is non-spin, the problem reduces to classifying the homotopy types of \(\{\mathcal{G}_k(\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2):k\in \mathbb{Z}\}.\) In particular, the author proves that if \(G=SU(n)\) and there is a homotopy equivalence \(\mathcal{G}_k(\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2)\simeq \mathcal{G}_l(\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2)\) then the equality \[ (\epsilon (n)n(n^2-1),k)=(\epsilon (n)n(n^2-1),l) \] holds, where \(\epsilon (n)=\frac{1}{2}\) if \(n\) is odd and \(\epsilon (n)=1\) if \(n\) is even and \((a,b)\) denotes the greatest common divisor of positive integers \(a\) and \(b\). The proof is based on a careful analysis of the evaluation fibration sequence \[ \mathcal{G}_k(M) \stackrel{}{\longrightarrow} G \stackrel{\partial_k}{\longrightarrow} \mathrm{Map}_k^*(M,BG) \stackrel{}{\longrightarrow} B\mathcal{G}_k(M) \stackrel{ev}{\longrightarrow} BG \] for \(M=\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2\), where we identify \(B\mathcal{G}_k(M)=\mathrm{Map}_k(M,BG)\).

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