English

Goldman form, flat connections and stable vector bundles

Algebraic Geometry 2022-03-07 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We consider the moduli space N\mathscr{N} of stable vector bundles of degree 00 over a compact Riemann surface and the affine bundle AN\mathscr{A}\to\mathscr{N} of flat connections. Following the similarity between the Teichm\"{u}ller spaces and the moduli of bundles, we introduce the analogue of of the quasi-Fuchsian projective connections - local holomorphic sections of A\mathscr{A} - that allow to pull back the Liouville symplectic form on TNT^{*}\mathscr{N} to A\mathscr{A}. We prove that the pullback of the Goldman form to A\mathscr{A} by the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence coincides with the pullback of the Liouville form. We also include a simple proof, in the spirit of Riemann bilinear relations, of the classic result - the pullback of Goldman symplectic form to N\mathscr{N} by the Narasimhan-Seshadri connection is the natural symplectic form on N\mathscr{N}, introduced by Narasimhan and Atiyah & Bott.

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@article{arxiv.2105.03745,
  title  = {Goldman form, flat connections and stable vector bundles},
  author = {Leon A. Takhtajan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.03745},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Final version, typos corrected and exposition improved. To appear in L'Enseignement Mathematique

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