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Andriy Haydys

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Deformation rigidity for Z/2 eigensections

We prove a rigidity result for certain critical Z/2 eigensections of the Laplacian on S^2 associated to a flat real line bundle determined by a branch-point configuration. More precisely, we show that every minimal non-degenerate critical eigensection is deformation rigid: any sufficiently small deformation of the configuration that still admits a critical eigensection must come from an SO(3)-rotation. This generalizes the rigidity phenomenon previously discovered in symmetric examples of Taubes-Wu.

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Search for Z/2 eigenfunctions on the sphere using machine learning

We use machine learning to search for examples of Z/2 eigenfunctions on the 2-sphere. For this we created a multivalued version of a feedforward deep neural network, and we implemented it using the JAX library. We found Z/2 eigenfunctions for three cases: In the first two cases we fixed the branch points at the vertices of a tetrahedron and at a cube respectively. In a third case, we allowed the AI to move the branch points around and, in the end, it positioned the branch points at the vertices of a squashed tetrahedron.

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An index theorem for Z/2-harmonic spinors branching along a graph

We prove an index formula for the Dirac operator acting on two-valued spinors on a $3$-manifold $M$ which branch along a smoothly embedded graph $\Sigma \subset M$, and with respect to a boundary condition along $\Sigma$ inspired by an instance of this setting related to the deformation theory of $\mathbb Z_2$-harmonic spinors. When $\Sigma$ is a smooth embedded curve, this index vanishes; this was proved earlier by one of us, but the proof here is different and extends to the more general setting where $\Sigma$ also has vertices. We focus primarily on the Dirac operator itself, but also show how our results apply to more general twisted Dirac operators and to the closely related $\mathbb Z_2$ harmonic $1$-forms.

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New examples of Z/2 harmonic 1-forms and their deformations

We collect a number of elementary constructions of $\Z_2$ harmonic $1$-forms, and of families of these objects. These examples show that the branching set $\Sigma$ of a $\Z_2$ harmonic 1-form may exhibit the following features: i) $\Sigma$ may be a non-trivial link; ii) $\Sigma$ may be a multiple cover; iii) $\Sigma$ may be immersed, and appear as a limit of smoothly embedded branching loci; iv) there are families of $\Z_2$ harmonic $1$-forms whose branching sets $\Sigma$ have tangent cones filling out a positive dimensional space, even modulo isometries. We show that Features i) and ii) occur already in dimension three, while the remaining ones appear at least in dimension four and higher.

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Special Kähler structures, cubic differentials and hyperbolic metrics

We obtain necessary conditions for the existence of special Kähler structures with isolated singularities on compact Riemann surfaces. We prove that these conditions are also sufficient in the case of the Riemann sphere and, moreover, we determine the whole moduli space of special Kähler structures with fixed singularities. The tool we develop for this aim is a correspondence between special Kähler structures and pairs consisting of a cubic differential and a hyperbolic metric.

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Seiberg-Witten monopoles and flat PSL(2;R)-connections

I show that flat PSL(2;R)-connections on three-manifolds satisfying certain 'stability condition' can be interpreted as solutions of the Seiberg-Witten equations with two spinors. This is used to construct explicit examples of the Seiberg-Witten moduli spaces. Also, I show that in this setting blow up sets satisfy certain non-trivial topological restrictions.

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Introduction to gauge theory

This is lecture notes for a course given at the PCMI Summer School "Quantum Field Theory and Manifold Invariants" (July 1 -- July 5, 2019). I describe basics of gauge-theoretic approach to construction of invariants of manifolds. The main example considered here is the Seiberg--Witten gauge theory. However, I tried to present the material in a form, which is suitable for other gauge-theoretic invariants too.

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The infinitesimal multiplicities and orientations of the blow-up set of the Seiberg-Witten equation with multiple spinors

I construct multiplicies and orientations of tangent cones to any blow-up set $Z$ for the Seiberg-Witten equation with multiple spinors. This is used to prove that $Z$ determines a homology class, which is shown to be equal to the Poincaré dual of the first Chern class of the determinant line bundle. I also obtain a lower bound for the 1-dimensional Hausdorff measure of $Z$.

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Affine special Kaehler structures in real dimension two

We review properties of affine special Kaehler structures focusing on singularities of such structures in the simplest case of real dimension two. We describe all possible isolated singularities and compute the monodromy of the flat symplectic connection, which is a part of a special Kaehler structure, near a singularity. Beside numerous local examples, we construct continuous families of special Kaehler structures with isolated singularities on the projective line.

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G2 instantons and the Seiberg-Witten monopoles

I describe a relation (mostly conjectural) between the Seiberg-Witten monopoles, Fueter sections, and G2 instantons. In the last part of this article I gathered some open questions connected with this relation.

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Dirac operators in gauge theory

This paper is a mixture of expository material and current research material. Among new results are examples of generalised harmonic spinors and their gauged version, the generalised Seiberg-Witten equations.

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Fukaya-Seidel category and gauge theory

Given a J-holomorphic Morse function on a symplectic manifold, a new construction of the Fukaya-Seidel category is outlined. Applying this construction in an infinite dimensional case, a Fukaya-Seidel-type category is associated to a smooth three-manifold. In this case the construction is based on a five-dimensional gauge theory.

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Gauge theory, calibrated geometry and harmonic spinors

In this paper connections between different gauge-theoretical problems in high and low dimensions are established. In particular it is shown that higher dimensional asd equations on total spaces of spinor bundles over low dimensional manifolds can be interpreted as Taubes-Pidstrygach's generalization of the Seiberg-Witten equations. By collapsing each fibre of the spinor bundle to a point, solutions of the Taubes-Pidstrygach equations are related to generalized harmonic spinors. This approach is also generalized for arbitrary fibrations (without singular fibres) compatible with an appropriate calibration.

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Nonlinear Dirac operator and quaternionic analysis

Properties of the Cauchy-Riemann-Fueter equation for maps between quaternionic manifolds are studied. Spaces of solutions in case of maps from a K3-surface to the cotangent bundle of a complex projective space are computed. A relationship between harmonic spinors of a generalized nonlinear Dirac operator and solutions of the Cauchy-Riemann-Fueter equation are established.

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HyperKahler and quaternionic Kahler manifolds with S^1-symmetries

We study relations between quaternionic Riemannian manifolds admitting different types of symmetries. We show that any hyperKahler manifold admitting hyperKahler potential and triholomorphic action of S^1 can be constructed from another hyperKahler manifold (of lower dimention) with an action of S^1 which fixes one complex structure and rotates the other two and vice versa. We also study corresponding quaternionic Kahler manifolds equipped with a quaternionic Kahler action of the circle. In particular we show that any positive quaternionic Kahler manifold with S^1 symmetry admits a Kahler metric on an open everywhere dense subset.

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