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An open 4-manifold having no instanton
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    An open 4-manifold having no instanton (English)
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    27 September 2011
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    Taubes proved that all compact oriented Riemannian 4-manifolds admit non-flat instantons. In the present paper, the author shows that there exists a non-compact oriented complete Riemannian 4-manifold having no non-flat instanton. The paper is well written.
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    Yang-Mills theory
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    instanton
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    open 4-manifold
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    infinite connected sum
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