Vector bundles over real algebraic varieties

The object of this paper is to study continuous vector bundles, over real algebraic varieties, admitting an algebraic structure. For large classes of real varieties, we obtain explicit information concerning the Grothendieck group of algebraic vector bundles. We show that in many cases this group is small compared to the corresponding group of continuous vector bundles. These results are used elsewhere to study the geometry of real algebraic varieties.Dedicated to Professor Alexander Grothendieck on the occasion of his 60th birthdaySupported by the NSF Grant DMS-8602672.     

Regulous vector bundles

Among recently introduced new notions in real algebraic geometry is that of regulous functions. Such functions form a foundation for the development of regulous geometry. Several interesting results on regulous varieties and regulous sheaves are already available. In this paper, we define and investigate regulous vector bundles. We establish algebraic and geometric properties of such vector bundles, and identify them with stratified‐algebraic vector bundles. Furthermore, using new results on curve‐rational functions, we characterize regulous vector bundles among families of vector spaces parametrized by an affine regulous variety. We also study relationships between regulous and topological vector bundles.     

Vector bundles on a product of real algebraic curves

We study complex vector bundles on a product of nonsingular real algebraic curves.

     

Orientability of vector bundles over real flag manifolds

We investigate the orientability of a class of vector bundles over flag manifolds of real semi-simple Lie groups, which include the tangent bundle and also stable bundles of certain gradient flows. Closed formulas, in terms of roots, are provided.     

Algebraic and real K-theory of Real varieties

An algebraic variety defined over the real numbers has an associated topological space with involution, and algebraic vector bundles give rise to Real vector bundles. We show that the associated map from algebraic K-theory to Atiyah's Real K-theory is, after completion at two, an isomorphism on homotopy groups above the dimension of the variety.     

On sectioning multiples of vector bundles and more general homomorphism bundles

We derive in a simple way some higher estimates of the number of every-where linearly independent cross-sections for even multiples of real vector bundles, and, more generally, for a certain class of homomorphism bundles, supposing that there exists at least one nowhere vanishing cross-section.     

Mod 2 cohomology of combinatorial Grassmannians

Matroid bundles, introduced by MacPherson, are combinatorial analogues of real vector bundles. This paper sets up the foundations of matroid bundles. It defines a natural transformation from isomorphism classes of real vector bundles to isomorphism classes of matroid bundles. It then gives a transformation from matroid bundles to spherical quasifibrations, by showing that the geometric realization of a matroid bundle is a spherical quasifibration. The poset of oriented matroids of a fixed rank classifies matroid bundles, and the above transformations give a splitting from topology to combinatorics back to topology. A consequence is that the mod 2 cohomology of the poset of rank k oriented matroids (this poset classifies matroid bundles) contains the free polynomial ring on the first k Stiefel-Whitney classes.     

Oriented matroids, complex manifolds, and a combinatorial model for BU

We introduce a new notion of complex oriented matroid and develop some basic properties of this object. Our definition of complex oriented matroids bears the same relationship to classical oriented matroids that the stratification of the complex plane into nine components corresponding to the signs of the complex and real parts has with the three-component sign stratification of the real line. We then use these complex oriented matroids to set up the foundations of a combinatorial version of complex geometry analogous to MacPherson's combinatorial differential manifolds; in this world, the representing object for the functor of (combinatorial) complex vector bundles is the nerve of a poset of complex oriented matroids. We conclude by showing that this space is homotopy equivalent to the complex Grassmannian, thus deducing that our combinatorial world is able to completely capture the notion of complex vector bundles.     

The moduli space of stable vector bundles over a real algebraic curve

We study the spaces of stable real and quaternionic vector bundles on a real algebraic curve. The basic relationship is established with unitary representations of an extension of \mathbbZ/2{\mathbb{Z}/2} by the fundamental group. By comparison with the space of real or quaternionic connections, some of the basic topological invariants of these spaces are calculated.     

Moduli spaces of vector bundles over a Klein surface

A compact topological surface S, possibly non-orientable and with non-empty boundary, always admits a Klein surface structure (an atlas whose transition maps are dianalytic). Its complex cover is, by definition, a compact Riemann surface M endowed with an anti-holomorphic involution which determines topologically the original surface S. In this paper, we compare dianalytic vector bundles over S and holomorphic vector bundles over M, devoting special attention to the implications that this has for moduli varieties of semistable vector bundles over M. We construct, starting from S, totally real, totally geodesic, Lagrangian submanifolds of moduli varieties of semistable vector bundles of fixed rank and degree over M. This relates the present work to the constructions of Ho and Liu over non-orientable compact surfaces with empty boundary (Ho and Liu in Commun Anal Geom 16(3):617–679, 2008).     

Torus Bundles over Locally Symmetric Varieties Associated to Cocycles of Discrete Groups

 We construct torus bundles over locally symmetric varieties associated to cocycles in the cohomology group , where Γ is a discrete subgroup of a semisimple Lie group and L is a lattice in a real vector space. We prove that such a torus bundle has a canonical complex structure and that the space of holomorphic forms of the highest degree on a fiber product of such bundles is isomorphic to the space of mixed automorphic forms of a certain type. (Received 4 September 1998)     

Hua operator on vector bundle: Application to AdS/CFT correspondence of Dirac fields

Hua’s theory of harmonic functions on classical domains is generalized to the theory on holomorphic vector bundles over classical domains and further on vector bundles over the real classical domains and quaternion classical domains. In case of the simplest quaternion classical domain there is a relation between Hua operator and Dirac operator, by which an AdS/CFT correspondence of Dirac fields is established.     

Real parabolic vector bundles over a real curve

We define real parabolic structures on real vector bundles over a real curve. Let (X, σ _X ) be a real curve, and let S???X be a non-empty finite subset of X such that σ _X (S)?=?S. Let N?≥?2 be an integer. We construct an N-fold cyclic cover p : Y→ X in the category of real curves, ramified precisely over each point of S, and with the property that for any element g of the Galois group Γ, and any y?∈?Y, one has $\sigma_Y(gy) = g^{-1}\sigma_Y(y)$ . We established an equivalence between the category of real parabolic vector bundles on (X, σ _X ) with real parabolic structure over S, all of whose weights are integral multiples of 1/N, and the category of real Γ-equivariant vector bundles on (Y, σ _Y ).     

η-Invariant and Flat Vector Bundles

We present an alternate definition of the mod Z component of the AtiyahPatodi-Singer η invariant associated to (not necessary unitary) fiat vector bundles, which identifies explicitly its real and imaginary parts. This is done by combining a deformation of flat connections introduced in a previous paper with the analytic continuation procedure appearing in the original article of Atiyah, Parodi and Singer.     

Geometric representation theory for unitary groups of operator algebras

Geometric realizations for the restrictions of GNS representations to unitary groups of C^∗-algebras are constructed. These geometric realizations use an appropriate concept of reproducing kernels on vector bundles. To build such realizations in spaces of holomorphic sections, a class of complex coadjoint orbits of the corresponding real Banach-Lie groups is described and some homogeneous holomorphic Hermitian vector bundles that are naturally associated with the coadjoint orbits are constructed.     

On Framed Instanton Bundles and Their Deformations

We consider a compact twistor space P and assume that there is a surface S ⊂ P, which has degree one on twistor fibres and contains a twistor fibre F, e.g. P a LeBrun twistor space ([20], [18]). Similar to [6] and [5] we examine the restriction of an instanton bundle V equipped with a fixed trivialization along F to a framed vector bundle over (S, F). First we develope inspired by [13] a suitable deformation theory for vector bundles over an analytic space framed by a vector bundle over a subspace of arbitrary codimension. In the second section we describe the restriction as a smooth natural transformation into a fine moduli space. By considering framed U(r)‐instanton bundles as a real structure on framed instanton bundles over P, we show that the bijection between isomorphism classes of framed U(r)‐instanton bundles and isomorphism classes of framed vector bundles over (S, F) due to [5] is actually an isomorphism of moduli spaces.     

Interpolation Problems for Vector Bundles on Algebraic Curves

In this paper we study meromorphic maps between vector bundles on a Riemann surface. We are mainly interested in stable vector bundles. For a huge number of numerical data we prove the existence of a meromorphic map between two vector bundles with a prescribed number of zeroes and a prescribed number of poles.     

Globally generated vector bundles on a smooth quadric surface

We give the classification of globally generated vector bundles of rank 2 on a smooth quadric surface with c1(2,2)in terms of the indices of the bundles,and extend the result to arbitrary higher rank case.We also investigate their indecomposability and give the sufficient and necessary condition on numeric data of vector bundles for indecomposability.     

Verlinde bundles and generalized theta linear series

In this paper we approach the study of generalized theta linear series on moduli of vector bundles on curves via vector bundle techniques on abelian varieties.

We study a naturally defined class of vector bundles on a Jacobian, called Verlinde bundles, in order to obtain information about duality between theta functions and effective global and normal generation on these moduli spaces.

     

Parameters of AG codes from vector bundles

We investigate the parameters of the algebraic–geometric codes constructed from vector bundles on a projective variety defined over a finite field. In the case of curves we give a method of constructing weakly stable bundles using restriction of vector bundles on algebraic surfaces and illustrate the result by some examples.