A New look at the vortex equations and dimensional reduction

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In order to use the technique of dimensional reduction, it is usually necessary for there to be a symmetry coming from a group action. In this paper we consider a situation in which there is no such symmetry, but in which a type of dimensional reduction is nevertheless possible. We obtain a relation between the Coupled Vortex equations on a closed Kahler manifold, $X$, and the Hermitian-Einstein equations on certain $P^1$-bundles over $X$. Our results thus generalize the dimensional reduction results of Garcia-Prada, which apply when the Hermitian-Einstein equations are on $X\times P^1$.
23 pages, AMSTeX, to be published in the Proceedings of the First USA/Brazil Workshop on Geometry, Topology and Physics, held in Campinas, Brazil, June 1996

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