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The Yang-Mills heat flow on the moduli space of framed bundles on a surface

Symplectic Geometry 2007-05-23 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study the analog of the Yang-Mills heat flow on the moduli space of framed bundles on a cut surface. Existence and convergence of the heat flow give a stratification of Morse type invariant under the action of the loop group. We use the stratification to prove versions of Kahler quantization commutes with reduction and Kirwan surjectivity.

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@article{arxiv.math/0211231,
  title  = {The Yang-Mills heat flow on the moduli space of framed bundles on a surface},
  author = {Christopher T. Woodward},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0211231},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

51 pages. Rewritten and corrected. Title changed from "A Kirwan-Ness stratification for loop groups", in order to make clear the main results are analytical