An application of gauge theory to four dimensional topology

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214437665zbMath0507.57010OpenAlexW1509221714WikidataQ115187955 ScholiaQ115187955MaRDI QIDQ1837431

Publication date: 1983

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214437665

zbMATH Keywords

instantons gauge theory Yang-Mills equations manifold with singularities moduli space of self dual connections over a Riemannian 4-manifold whose intersection matrix is positive definite obstruction to smoothing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators (58J99) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Smoothing in differential topology (57R10)

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