The Riemannian geometry of the Yang-Mills moduli space

DOI10.1007/BF01225380zbMath0637.53037WikidataQ115393834 ScholiaQ115393834MaRDI QIDQ1098424

David Groisser, Thomas H. Parker

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01225380

zbMATH Keywords

curvature tensor; moduli spaces; self-dual connections; instanton; Laplace operators; standard 4-sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58J60: Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.)

53C05: Connections (general theory)

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