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In this paper, we study Higgs bundles on non-compact Hermitian manifolds. Under some assumptions for the underlying Hermitian manifolds which are not necessarily Kähler, we solve the Hermitian–Einstein equation on analytically stable Higgs bundles.
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The two authors are partially supported by NSF in China No.11625106, 11571332 and 11721101. The first author is also supported by NSF in China No.11801535, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No.2018M642515) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. The research was partially supported by the project “Analysis and Geometry on Bundles” of Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China.
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Appendix
Appendix
Let \({\mathbb {C}}\) be the plane, \(\omega _{{\mathbb {C}}}\) be the Euclidean metric and \(\varphi _{{\mathbb {C}}}(w)=(1+|w|^{2})^{-1-\delta }\), where w is the complex coordinate of \({\mathbb {C}}\) and \(\delta >0\). By using Simpson’s result ([31], Proposition 2.4), Mochizuki showed that \(({\mathbb {C}}, \omega _{{\mathbb {C}}}, \varphi _{{\mathbb {C}}})\) meets the Assumption 1, i.e., we have the following lemma.
Lemma 5.1
([27], Lemma 3.5) Let \(({\mathbb {C}}, \omega _{{\mathbb {C}}}, \varphi _{{\mathbb {C}}})\) be defined as above. For any nonnegative bounded function f satisfying
we have
where \(a: [0, \infty ) \rightarrow [0, \infty )\) is an increasing function with \(a(0)=0\) and \(a(x) = x\) \((x\ge 1)\), C(B) is a positive constant depending only on B. Moreover, if \(\sqrt{-1}\Lambda _{\omega _{{\mathbb {C}}} }\partial \overline{\partial }f\ge 0\), then f is a constant.
Set
\(\varphi _{M}(w, \cdot ) =\varphi _{{\mathbb {C}}}(w)\), where \((Y, \omega _{Y})\) is any compact Gauduchon manifold without boundary. Since \(\omega _{{\mathbb {C}}}\) is Kähler and \(\omega _{Y}\) is Gauduchon, the product metric \(\omega _{M}\) is also Gauduchon. Following Mochizuki’s argument [27] and running Moser’s iteration procedure, we can prove the following proposition.
Proposition 5.2
\((M, \omega _{M}, \varphi _{M})\) satisfies the Assumption 1.
Proof
For any nonnegative bounded function \(f:M\rightarrow {\mathbb {R}}\) satisfying
we set
where n is the complex dimension of Y. By direct calculation, we derive
where we have used the condition that \((Y, \omega _{Y})\) is a compact Gauduchon manifold. Then (5.2) implies
For any point \(w_{0}\in {\mathbb {C}}\), set \(B_{r}(w_{0}):=\{w\in {\mathbb {C}}\ | \ |w-w_{0}|<r\}\). Then \((X=B_{2}(w_{0})\times Y, \omega _{M})\) is a compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary (it doesn’t depend on \(w_{0}\)) and we have the following Sobolev inequality
for any compactly supported function \(\nu \in L_{1}^{2}(X)\). On the other hand, there holds
on X. In the following, by using the Sobolev inequality (5.8) and the inequality (5.9), we will run Moser’s iteration procedure to obtain a mean value inequality.
Take \(1\le r \le r_{2}<r_{1} \le R \le 2\) and let \(\psi _{1}\in C_{0}^{\infty }(X)\) be the cutoff function such that
\(0\le \psi _{1} (x) \le 1\) and \(|d\psi _{1} |_{\omega _{X}}\le 4(r_{1}-r_{2})\). Set \({\hat{f}}=f+1\). Of course (5.9) implies
Multiplying \({\hat{f}}^{q-1}\psi _{1}^{2}\) on both sides of the inequality (5.11) (\(q\ge 2\)), and integrating it over X, we know
Because the manifold Y is compact, there is a uniform constant \(C_{1}\) such that \(\sup _{X}|\partial \omega _{M}|_{\omega _{M}}\le C_{1}\), and then
On the other hand, applying Cauchy’s inequality, we have
and
where \(\epsilon\) is a positive constant which will be chosen later. By (5.12), (5.13), (5.14) and (5.15), we conclude that
Choose \(\epsilon =\frac{q-1}{2(C_{3}+1)}\), then
and
Using (5.18) and the Sobolev inequality (5.8) (\(\nu ={\hat{f}}^{\frac{q}{2}}\cdot \psi _{1}\)), one can get
and then
where \(C_{4}\) is a positive constant depending only on B, \(C_{S}\) and \(\sup _{Y}|\partial \omega _{Y}|\). Let \(R_{i}=r+2^{-i}\cdot (R-r)\), \(q_{i}=2(\frac{n+1}{n})^{i}\). Substituting \(r_{2}=R_{i+1}\), \(r_{1}=R_{i}\) and \(q=q_{i}\) into (5.20), we obtain
Iterating the inequality (5.21) and using \(\sum _{i=0}^{\infty }k^{-i}=\frac{k}{k-1}\), \(\sum _{i=0}^{\infty }(i+1)k^{-i}=\frac{k^{2}}{(k-1)^{2}}\), we conclude that
where \(C_{6}\) is a positive constant depending only on B, n, \(C_{S}\) and \(\sup _{Y}|\partial \omega _{Y}|\). For any \(0< {\tilde{r}} \le 2\) and \(0< \delta <1\), let \(h_{0}=\delta {\tilde{r}}\), \(h_{i}=h_{i-1}+2^{-i}(1-\delta ){\tilde{r}}\) for each \(i=1, 2, 3, \cdots\). Putting \(r=h_{i}\) and \(R=h_{i+1}\) into (5.22), we have
Denote \(A(i):=\sup _{B_{h_{i}}(w_{0})\times Y}{\hat{f}}\). Then (5.23) yields
where \(C_{7}\) is a positive constant depending only on B, n, \(C_{S}\) and \(\sup _{Y}|\partial \omega _{Y}|\). Take \({\tilde{r}}=2\) and \(\delta =\frac{1}{2}\). Clearly (5.24) gives us that
and
where \(C_{8}\) and \(C_{9}\) are positive constants depending only on B, n, \(C_{S}\) and \(\sup _{Y}|\partial \omega _{Y}|\). Since \(w_{0}\) is arbitrary, we have
Suppose that \(\sqrt{-1}\Lambda _{\omega _{M}}\partial {\overline{\partial }} f \ge 0\) on M. From the definition of \({\tilde{f}}\) and the condition \(\omega _{Y}\) is Gauduchon, it is easy to see that \({\tilde{f}}\) is a bounded function on \(({\mathbb {C}}, \omega _{{\mathbb {C}}})\) and satisfies \(\sqrt{-1}\Lambda _{\omega _{{\mathbb {C}}}}\partial ^{{\mathbb {C}}} {\overline{\partial }}^{{\mathbb {C}}} {\tilde{f}} \ge 0\). According to Lemma 5.1, we know that \({\tilde{f}}\equiv {\tilde{C}}\). Set
Then
and
where we have used the Poincaré inequality on the compact Riemannian manifold \((Y, \omega _{Y})\). Applying Lemma 5.1 again, we have \(f_{1}\equiv 0\) and then f is constant.
\(\square\)
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Zhang, C., Zhang, X. Analytically stable Higgs bundles on some non-Kähler manifolds. Annali di Matematica 200, 1683–1707 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10231-020-01055-5
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