Holomorphic vector bundles, knots and the Rozansky-Witten invariants.

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2001.V5.N3.A2MaRDI QIDQ700566zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors George Thompson

Publication date 22 October 2002

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0002168

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldhyper-holomorphicinvariantslinkRozansky-Witten invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Holomorphic bundles and generalizations (32L05) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

Abstract: Link invariants, for 3-manifolds, are defined in the context of the Rozansky-Witten theory. To each knot in the link one associates a holomorphic bundle over a holomorphic symplectic manifold X. The invariants are evaluated for b_{1}(M) geq 1 and X Hyper-Kaehler. To obtain invariants of Hyper-Kaehler X one finds that the holomorphic vector bundles must be hyper-holomorphic. This condition is derived and explained. Some results for X not Hyper-Kaehler are presented.

Review text

This paper uses the Rozansky-Witten theory to define some new invariants for a link in a 3-manifold \(M\). The required data is a hyper-Kähler manifold \(X\) and, for each component of the link, a holomorphic vector bundle over \(X\). In order for these invariants to be independent of the complex structure on \(X\), it turns out to be necessary and sufficient that the bundles be hyper-holomorphic. The original Rozansky-Witten invariants are a special case. Some explicit calculations are done when either \(b_1 (M)\geq 1\) or \(\dim_{\mathbb C}X=2\), expressing these invariants in terms of the Rozansky-Witten invariant of \((M,X)\) and more standard invariants of the link and the bundles. This is similar to the case of the generalized Casson invariant and the universal LMO invariant, where these invariants are less interesting when \(b_1 (M)\geq 1\).

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