Growth of the Higgs Field for Kapustin-Witten solutions on ALE and ALF gravitational instantons

arXiv2306.17017MaRDI QIDQ6442011FDOQ6442011

Michael Bleher

Publication date: 29 June 2023

Abstract: The $heta$-Kapustin-Witten equations are a family of equations for a connection $A$ on a principal $G$-bundle $Eo{W}^4$ and a one-form $phi$, called the Higgs field, with values in the adjoint bundle $operatornameadE$. They give rise to second-order partial differential equations that can be studied more generally on Riemannian manifolds $W^n$ of dimension $n$. For $G=SU(2)$, we report a dichotomy that is satisfied by solutions of the second-order equations on Ricci-flat ALX spaces with sectional curvature bounded from below. This dichotomy was originally established by Taubes for $W^n=mathbb{R}^n$; the alternatives are: either the asymptotic growth of the averaged norm of the Higgs field over geodesic spheres is larger than a positive power of the radius, or the commutator $[phiwedgephi]$ vanishes everywhere. As a consequence, we are able to confirm a conjecture by Nagy and Oliveira, namely, that finite energy solutions of the $heta$-Kapustin-Witten equations on ALE and ALF gravitational instantons with $hetaeq0$ are such that $[phiwedgephi]=0$, $abl{a}^{A}phi=0$, and $A$ is flat.

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