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Uniton Bundles

dg-ga 2008-02-03 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We show that a twistor construction of Hitchin and Ward can be adapted to study unitons (harmonic spheres in a unitary group). Specifically, we show that unitons are equivalent to holomorphic bundles with extra structure over a rational ruled surface with energy given by Chern class. This equivalence allows us to confirm the conjecture of Wood that unitons are rational. We also construct an example of a two uniton in U(3) using this construction.

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@article{arxiv.dg-ga/9508011,
  title  = {Uniton Bundles},
  author = {Christopher Kumar Anand},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:dg-ga/9508011},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

31 pages, amstex2.1, 4 postscript figures, to appear in Comm. Anal. Geom