Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly

Volume 15 (2019)

Number 4

Special Issue in Honor of Simon Donaldson: Part 2 of 2

Guest Editor: Richard Thomas (Imperial College London)

On the Kähler–Yang–Mills–Higgs equations

Pages: 1181 – 1217

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/PAMQ.2019.v15.n4.a6

Authors

Luis Álvarez-Cónsul (Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Madrid, Spain)

Mario Garcia-Fernandez (Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; and Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Madrid, Spain)

Oscar García-Prada (Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Madrid, Spain)

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a set of equations on a principal bundle over a compact complex manifold coupling a connection on the principal bundle, a section of an associated bundle with Kähler fibre, and a Kähler structure on the base. These equations are a generalization of the Kähler–Yang–Mills equations introduced by the authors. They also generalize the constant scalar curvature for a Kähler metric studied by Donaldson and others, as well as the Yang–Mills–Higgs equations studied by Mundet i Riera. We provide a moment map interpretation of the equations, construct some first examples, and study obstructions to the existence of solutions.

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The authors were partially supported by the Spanish MINECO under ICMAT Severo Ochoa project No. SEV-2015-0554, and under grant No. MTM2016-81048-P.

Received 22 June 2018

Published 20 March 2020