Morse theory for the space of Higgs bundles

DOI10.4310/CAG.2008.V16.N2.A2zbMATH Open1151.58010arXivmath/0611113WikidataQ60137738 ScholiaQ60137738MaRDI QIDQ939677FDOQ939677

Authors: Graeme Wilkin 

Publication date: 28 August 2008

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Here we prove the necessary analytic results to construct a Morse theory for the Yang-Mills-Higgs functional on the space of Higgs bundles over a compact Riemann surface. The main result is that the gradient flow with initial conditions $(A^{″},phi)$ converges to a critical point of this functional, the isomorphism class of which is given by the graded object associated to the Harder-Narasimhan-Seshadri filtration of $(A^{″},phi)$. In particular, the results of this paper show that the failure of hyperk"ahler Kirwan surjectivity for rank 2 fixed determinant Higgs bundles does not occur because of a failure of the existence of a Morse theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611113

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifoldMorse theoryHiggs bundlesYang-Mills-Higgs functionalGradient flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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