Twistor transform of vector bundles

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This article considers a family of compact complex submanifolds \(X_t\) of a complex manifold \(Y\) parameterised by \(t\in M\), another complex manifold. The prototype is when \(Y={\mathbb{CP}}_3\) and \(M={\text{Gr}}_2({\mathbb C}^4)\) parameterises the linearly embedded rational curves. In this case, the pioneering work of \textit{R.~Ward} [Phys. Lett. A 61, 81-82 (1977; Zbl 0964.81519)] established a one-to-one correspondence between self-dual connections on suitable open subsets of \(M\) and holomorphic vector bundles on the corresponding open subset of~\(Y\), trivial on each~\(X_t\). There have been many variations on this theme explored since that time. A notable example is the case when \(Y\) is a complex contact manifold and the \(X_t\) are Legendre submanifolds. The deformation theory is due to \textit{S. A. Merkulov} [Math. Z. 226, 211-265 (1997; Zbl 0904.53047)] and is the basis of his joint work with L. Schwachhöfer classifying the exceptional holonomies. This article is the definitive treatment of the general case. The starting point is a holomorphic vector bundle \(E\) on \(Y\) such that \(\dim\Gamma(X_t,{\mathcal O}(E|_{X_t}))\) does not depend on~\(t\). As \(t\in M\) varies, this gives a vector bundle on \(M\) and the authors now prove that, provided the cohomologies \(H^p(X_t,{\mathcal O}(E|_{X_t}\otimes N_t^*))\) vanish for \(p=0,1\), where \(N_t^*\) is the conormal bundle of \(X_t\hookrightarrow Y\), then this vector bundle on \(M\) is naturally equipped with a connection whose curvature is restricted (specifically to lie in the Penrose transform of \(H^1(X_t,{\mathcal O}(E|_{X_t}\otimes\odot^2N_t^*)\otimes \Gamma(X_t,{\mathcal O}(E|_{X_t}))^*\))). There are many examples in which these hypotheses hold and this theorem enables one simply to read off many prior results. So, the motivation for a general treatment is clear. The proofs are efficiently obtained by calculation in local coordinates.











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