Objective B-fields and a Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence
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A simple trick invoking objective B-fields is employed to refine the concept of characteristic classes for twisted bundles. Then the objective stability and objective Einstein metrics are introduced and a new Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence is established between them.References
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Additional Information
- Shuguang Wang
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
- Email: wangs@missouri.edu
- Received by editor(s): July 30, 2009
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 10, 2010, and June 15, 2010
- Published electronically: December 1, 2011
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 364 (2012), 2087-2107
- MSC (2010): Primary 53C07, 53C08, 57R20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-2011-05413-9
- MathSciNet review: 2869199