Moduli of flat SU(3)-bundles over a Klein bottle

DOI10.4310/MRL.2010.V17.N5.A4MaRDI QIDQ2275739zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Baird

Publication date 9 August 2011

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1604

zbMATH Keywords

Cohomology of moduli spaces of flat bundles over 2-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29)

Abstract: In this short note, we compute the Betti numbers of the moduli stack of flat SU(3)-bundles over a Klein bottle. We also handle the general compact group case over RP^2. In all cases the cohomology is found to be equivariantly formal, supporting a conjecture from the author's doctoral thesis. Our results also verify conjectural formulas obtained by Ho-Liu using Yang-Mills Morse theory.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a smooth, compact nonorientable 2-manifold. For any Lie group \(G\), consider the set of group homomorphisms \(Hom(\pi_1(M), G)\) topologized with the compact-open topology. The group \(G\) acts continuously on \(Hom(\pi_1(M), G)\) by conjugation. The quotient stack \([Hom(\pi_1(M), G)/G]\) is well known to be isomorphic to the topological stack of flat \(G\)-bundles over \(M\). In previous work, the author has computed the cohomology with rational coefficients of \([Hom(\pi_1(M), G)/G]\) in case \(G=SU(2)\). In the present paper, he computes the Betti numbers of \([Hom(\pi_1(M), G)/G]\) when \(M\) is the Klein Bottle \(Kl\) and \(G=SU(2)\). He also handles the general compact group case over the real projective plane \({\mathbb R}P^2\). The results obtained verify conjectural formulas obtained by \textit{N. K. Ho} and \textit{C. C. M.Liu} in [Commun. Anal. Geom. 16, No. 3, 617--679 (2008; Zbl 1157.58003)] using Yang-Mills Morse theory.

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