Vafa–Witten conjecture for the L2L^2 cohomology of Nakajima's metric

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Let \Hin\Hi{n} be the Hilbert scheme of nn points on the complex plane, equipped with Nakajima's metric, and let Hk\mathcal{H}^k denote the space of L2L^2 harmonic kk-forms:

Hk={α∈L2(ΛkT∗\Hin), dα=d∗α=0}.\mathcal{H}^k=\left\lbrace \alpha\in L^2\left(\Lambda^kT^*\Hi{n}\right),\ d\alpha=d^*\alpha=0 \right\rbrace.

Vafa–Witten conjecture.

Hk={{0} if ⁡k≠2(n−1)=dim⁡R\HinIm⁡(Hck(\Hin)→Hk(\Hin)) if ⁡k=2(n−1).\mathcal{H}^k=\left\lbrace \begin{array}{ll} \{0\}&\ \operatorname{if\ } k\not=2(n-1)=\dim_\mathbb{R}\Hi{n}\\ \operatorname{Im}\left( H_c^k(\Hi{n})\rightarrow H^k(\Hi{n})\right) &\ \operatorname{if\ } k=2(n-1) \end{array} \right..

This question, attributed to C. Vafa and E. Witten, concerns the L2L^2 harmonic forms of the moduli space of instantons on noncommutative R4\mathbb{R}^4 and relates analytic L2L^2 cohomology to the image of compactly supported cohomology in ordinary cohomology. The source presents it as a question and gives no evidence of resolution.

References

Primary source

Gilles Carron, “On the QALE geometry of Nakajima's metric”, arXiv:0811.3870 (2008).

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