Gauge Fixing for Logarithmic Connections Over Curves and the Riemann-Hilbert Problem

DOI10.1112/S0024610799007176MaRDI QIDQ4265446zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Gantz, Brian Steer

Publication date 23 January 2002

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9504016

zbMATH Keywords

compact Riemann surfacesholomorphic vector bundleslogarithmic connectionsquasi-fuchsian logarithmic connectionRiemann-Hilbert problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann surfaces; Weierstrass points; gap sequences (14H55) Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35)

Abstract: We explain in detail the correspondence between algebraic connections over CP^{1}, logarithmic at X = { x_{1},...,x_{n} } subset CP^{1}, and flat bundles over CP^{1}-X with integer weighted filtrations near each x_{j}. Included is a gauge fixing theorem for logarithmic connections. (Thus far, one could work over any Riemann surface.) We prove a bound on the splitting type of a semi-stable logarithmic connection over CP^{1}. Using this we extend and simplify some results on the Riemann-Hilbert-Problem, which asks for a logarithmic connection on a holomorphically trivial bundle over CP^{1}, extending a given flat bundle over CP^{1}-X. The work is self contained and elementary, using only basic knowledge of Gauge Theory and the Birkhoff-Grothendieck-Theorem.

Review text

Let \(\Sigma\) be a compact Riemann surface of genus \(g\), \(X=\{x_1,\dots,x_n\}\) a finite subset of \(\Sigma\). A logarithmic connection over \((\Sigma,X)\) consists of a vector bundle \(E\) of rank \(r\) on \(\Sigma\) endowed with a holomorphic connection \(\nabla:\Omega^0(E)\to\Omega^0(E)\otimes\Omega^1 _{\Sigma}(\log X)\). One can naturally associate to such a logarithmic connection the monodromy map \(\chi:\pi_1(\Sigma\setminus X)\to \text{GL}(r,\mathbb C)\). A logarithmic connection is called quasi-fuchsian if the splitting type of the vector bundle \(E\) satisfies certain natural inequalities. Then the main question coming from Hilbert's twenty first problem is the following: For which \((\Sigma,X)\) and maps \(\chi:\pi_1(\Sigma\setminus X)\to \text{GL}(r,\mathbb C)\) there exists a quasi-fuchsian logarithmic connection realising \((X,\chi)\)? Sometimes this problem is also called Riemann-Hilbert problem. The authors prove several results in this direction (especially when \(\Sigma\) is the projective line) by a gauge-theoretic approach using ideas of \textit{P. Deligne} [``Equations différentielles à points singuliers réguliers, Lect. Notes Math. 163 (1970; Zbl 0244.14004)] and \textit{C. T. Simpson} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 3, 713-770 (1990; Zbl 0713.58012)]. The authors recover and generalize in particular some earlier results of A. A. Bolibruch and V. P. Kostov.

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