Path-connected Yang-Mills moduli spaces

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214438683zbMath0551.53040OpenAlexW1616916263WikidataQ115187795 ScholiaQ115187795MaRDI QIDQ801310

Clifford Henry Taubes

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214438683

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacesself-dual connectionsLjusternik-Schnirelman theoryYang-Mills functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Connections (general theory) (53C05)

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