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A gerbe-like construction in gauge theory

Differential Geometry 2025-05-23 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

In 2022 Baraglia and Konno showed the following: for a smooth family of a homotopy K3K3 surface XXπBX \to \mathbb{X} \stackrel{\pi}{\to} B, if the tangent bundle along the fibers TBXT_B \mathbb{X} admits a spin structure, then H+(X)\mathcal{H}^+(\mathbb{X}) also admits a spin structure, where H+(X)\mathcal{H}^+(\mathbb{X}) is the vector bundle consisting of self-dual harmonic 2-forms. In this paper, we show that TBXπH+(X)T_B \mathbb{X} \oplus \pi^\ast \mathcal{H}^+(\mathbb{X}) admits a canonical spin structure. The proof is carried out by canonically constructing a lifting O(1)O(1)-gerbe for the spin structure on H+(X)\mathcal{H}^+(\mathbb{X}) using the families Seiberg--Witten equations, starting from a lifting O(1)O(1)-gerbe for the spin structure on TBXT_B \mathbb{X}.

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@article{arxiv.2404.12573,
  title  = {A gerbe-like construction in gauge theory},
  author = {Mitsuyoshi Adachi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.12573},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

63 pages. Added Lemma 5.18 to modify the proof of Proposition 5.8. Modified the statement of Lemma 7.9. Add the declaration of the use of generative AI in translation

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