On the Existence of Gr-semistable Filtrations of Orthogonal/Symplectic $λ$-connections
Mao Sheng, Hao Sun, Jianping Wang
Abstract
In this paper, we study the existence of gr-semistable filtrations of orthogonal/symplectic $λ$-connections. It is known that gr-semistable filtrations always exist for flat bundles in arbitrary characteristic. However, we found a counterexample of orthogonal flat bundles of rank 5 in positive characteristic. The central new idea in this example is the notion of quasi gr-semistability for orthogonal/symplectic $λ$-connections. We establish the equivalence between gr-semistability and quasi gr-semistablity for an orthogonal/symplectic $λ$-connection. This provides a way to determine whether an orthogonal/symplectic $λ$-connection is gr-semistable. As an application, we obtain a characterization of gr-semistable orthogonal $λ$-connections of rank $\leq 6$.
