Atiyah's conjecture on Yang–Mills and loop-space Morse homology

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Let GG be a compact Lie group and let PP be a principal GG-bundle over a Riemann surface Σ\Sigma. Write A(P)\mathcal A(P) for the space of connections on PP, G0(P)\mathcal G_0(P) for the based gauge group, ΛG\Lambda G for the free loop space of GG, and let GG act on ΛG\Lambda G by conjugation. Atiyah's conjecture. There exists an isomorphism

HM(A(P)/G0(P))HM(ΛG/G).HM_{\ast}\big(\mathcal A(P)/\mathcal G_0(P)\big)\cong HM_{\ast}\big(\Lambda G/G\big).

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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Jan Swoboda, “The Yang-Mills Gradient Flow and Loop Spaces of Compact Lie Groups”, arXiv:1104.5514 (2012).

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