Author : Alexander H. W. Schmitt
Publisher : European Mathematical Society
ISBN 13 : 9783037190654
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Geometric Invariant Theory and Decorated Principal Bundles by : Alexander H. W. Schmitt
Download or read book Geometric Invariant Theory and Decorated Principal Bundles written by Alexander H. W. Schmitt and published by European Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book starts with an introduction to Geometric Invariant Theory (GIT). The fundamental results of Hilbert and Mumford are exposed as well as more recent topics such as the instability flag, the finiteness of the number of quotients, and the variation of quotients. In the second part, GIT is applied to solve the classification problem of decorated principal bundles on a compact Riemann surface. The solution is a quasi-projective moduli scheme which parameterizes those objects that satisfy a semistability condition originating from gauge theory. The moduli space is equipped with a generalized Hitchin map. Via the universal Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondence, these moduli spaces are related to moduli spaces of solutions of certain vortex type equations. Potential applications include the study of representation spaces of the fundamental group of compact Riemann surfaces. The book concludes with a brief discussion of generalizations of these findings to higher dimensional base varieties, positive characteristic, and parabolic bundles. The text is fairly self-contained (e.g., the necessary background from the theory of principal bundles is included) and features numerous examples and exercises. It addresses students and researchers with a working knowledge of elementary algebraic geometry.