A Note on Curvature Estimate of the Hermitian–Yang–Mills Flow

Abstract

In this paper, we study the curvature estimate of the Hermitian–Yang–Mills flow on holomorphic vector bundles. In one simple case, we show that the curvature of the evolved Hermitian metric is uniformly bounded away from the analytic subvariety determined by the Harder–Narasimhan–Seshadri filtration of the holomorphic vector bundle.

Keywords

Holomorphic structure / Harder–Narasimhan–Seshadri filtration / Hermitian–Yang–Mills flow

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