The stable moduli space of flat connections over a surface

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2010-05218-3MaRDI QIDQ3082387zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Daniel Ramras

Publication date 10 March 2011

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1784

zbMATH Keywords

deformation \(K\)-theorymoduli space of flat, unitary connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Topological (K)-theory (55N15) Stable homotopy theory, spectra (55P42) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: We compute the homotopy type of the moduli space of flat, unitary connections over aspherical surfaces, after stabilizing with respect to the rank of the underlying bundle. Over the orientable surface M^g, we show that this space has the homotopy type of the infinite symmetric product of M^g, generalizing a well-known fact for the torus. Over a non-orientable surface, we show that this space is homotopy equivalent to a disjoint union of two tori, whose common dimension corresponds to the rank of the first (co)homology group of the surface. Similar calculations are provided for products of surfaces, and show a close analogy with the Quillen-Lichtenbaum conjectures in algebraic K-theory. The proofs utilize Tyler Lawson's work in deformation K-theory, and rely heavily on Yang-Mills theory and gauge theory.

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