Periodic Monopoles and Difference Modules

Takuro Mochizuki has been awarded the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for advancing the understanding of holonomic D-modules through his research on harmonic bundles and twister D-modules, which he has studied at the "interface of algebraic geometry and differential geometry".

• . - Introduction. - Preliminaries. - Formal Difference Modules and Good Parabolic Structure. - Filtered Bundles. - Basic Examples of Monopoles Around Infinity. - Asymptotic Behaviour of Periodic Monopoles Around Infinity. - The Filtered Bundles Associated with Periodic Monopoles. - Global Periodic Monopoles of Rank One. - Global Periodic Monopoles and Filtered Difference Modules. - Asymptotic Harmonic Bundles and Asymptotic Doubly Periodic Instantons (Appendix).