Hermitian Yang-Mills connections on pullback bundles

We investigate stability of pullback bundles with respect to adiabatic classes on the total space of holomorphic submersions. We show that the pullback of a stable (resp. unstable) bundle remains stable (resp. unstable) for these classes. Assuming the graded object of a Jordan-Holder filtration to be locally free, we obtain a necessary and sufficient criterion for when the pullback of a strictly semistable vector bundle will be stable, in terms of intersection numbers on the base of the fibration. The arguments rely on adiabatic constructions of hermitian Yang-Mills connections together with the classical Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau correspondence.