Compactness in the adiabatic limit of disk vortices

TL;DR

This paper studies the adiabatic limit of disk vortices in symplectic geometry, establishing convergence to stable solutions and analyzing new bubble phenomena in the compactification process.

Contribution

It introduces a framework for understanding the adiabatic limit of disk vortices and characterizes the convergence to stable solutions with new bubble types.

Findings

Sequences of bounded-energy vortices converge to stable solutions.

New bubble types are identified in the compactification of vortex moduli spaces.

Analytical properties of vortices over the upper half plane are established.

Abstract

This paper is the first input towards an open analogue of the quantum Kirwan map. We consider the adiabatic limit of the symplectic vortex equation over the unit disk for a Hamiltonian G-manifold with Lagrangian boundary condition, by blowing up the metric on the disk. We define an appropriate notion of stable solutions in the limit, and prove that any sequence of disk vortices with energy uniformly bounded has a subsequence converging to such a stable object. We also proved several analytical properties of vortices over the upper half plane, which are new type of bubbles appearing in our compactification.