Newstead’s Mayer–Vietoris argument in characteristic 2

DOI10.1142/S0129167X19500654MaRDI QIDQ5203907zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Christopher Scaduto, Matthew Stoffregen

Publication date 9 December 2019

Published in International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06268

zbMATH Keywords

flat connectionstable bundlemod 2 cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

Abstract: Consider the moduli space of framed flat $U(2)$ connections with fixed odd determinant over a surface. Newstead combined some fundamental facts about this moduli space with the Mayer-Vietoris sequence to compute its betti numbers over any field not of characteristic two. We adapt his method in characteristic two to produce conjectural recursive formulae for the mod two betti numbers of the framed moduli space which we partially verify. We also discuss the interplay with the mod two cohomology ring structure of the unframed moduli space.

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