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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 22 2 c Solution by
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The reverse-oriented Complex projective plane has intersection form , so , while . The Hodge star splits harmonic two-forms into self-dual and anti-self-dual subspaces, and their dimensions are the positive and negative indices of the intersection form. Therefore every harmonic two-form is an anti-self-dual two-form for every chosen metric.
By part (b), every complex line bundle has a unitary connection with harmonic real vector-bundle curvature, so this connection is an ASD connection. Conversely, an ASD connection on a complex line bundle has and , so its vector-bundle curvature is harmonic. The uniqueness in part (b) therefore applies to all ASD connections on that fixed complex line bundle. Each complex line bundle has exactly one gauge orbit of ASD connections.
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