Global uniqueness of the minimal sphere in the Atiyah-Hitchin manifold

DOI10.4310/MRL.2022.V29.N3.A10MaRDI QIDQ6300650arXivFDO

Publication date 22 April 2018

Holomorphic bundles and generalizations (32L05) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Global submanifolds (53C40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Generalized geometries (à la Hitchin) (53D18)

Abstract: In this note, we study submanifold geometry of the Atiyah-Hitchin manifold, the double cover of the

2

-monopole moduli space. When the manifold is naturally identified as the total space of a line bundle over

S^{2}

, the zero section is a distinguished minimal

2

-sphere of considerable interest. In particular, there has been a conjecture by Micallef and Wolfson [Math. Ann. 295 (1993), Remark on p.262] about the uniqueness of this minimal

2

-sphere among all closed minimal

2

-surfaces. We show that this minimal

2

-sphere satisfies the "strong stability condition" proposed in our earlier work [arXiv:1710.00433], and confirm the global uniqueness as a corollary.

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