The Pontryagin rings of moduli spaces of arbitrary rank holomorphic bundles over a Riemann surface

dc.creatorEarl, Richard
dc.creatorKirwan, Frances
dc.date1997-09-10
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:07:25Z
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dc.descriptionThe cohomology of the moduli spaces of stable bundles M(n,d), of coprime rank n and degree d, over a Riemann surface (of genus g > 1) have been intensely studied over the past three decades. We prove in this paper that the Pontryagin ring of M(n,d) vanishes in degrees above 2n(n-1)(g-1) and that this bound is strict (i.e. there exists a non-zero element of degree 2n(n-1)(g-1) in Pont(M(n,d)).) This result is a generalisation of a 1967 Newstead conjecture that Pont(M(2,1)) vanished above 4(g-1) (or equivalently that β^g =0.) These results have been independently proved by Lisa Jeffrey and Jonathan Weitsman.
dc.descriptionAMS-Latex, 15 pages, no figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9709012
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9709012
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/150364
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.subject14D20
dc.titleThe Pontryagin rings of moduli spaces of arbitrary rank holomorphic bundles over a Riemann surface
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