Atiyah's conjecture on Yang–Mills and loop-space Morse homology
Atiyah's conjecture on Yang–Mills and loop-space Morse homology
Let be a compact Lie group and let be a principal -bundle over a Riemann surface . Write for the space of connections on , for the based gauge group, for the free loop space of , and let act on by conjugation. Atiyah's conjecture. There exists an isomorphism
The conjecture proposes that the Morse homology associated with the Yang–Mills functional on the quotient of the connection space by the based gauge group agrees with the Morse homology of the loop space of the compact Lie group modulo conjugation, extending the correspondence between Yang–Mills critical points and closed geodesics. The supplied text does not state whether this conjecture has been resolved.
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Primary source
Jan Swoboda, “The Yang-Mills Gradient Flow and Loop Spaces of Compact Lie Groups”, arXiv:1104.5514 (2012).
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