A direct method for minimizing the Yang-Mills functional over 4- manifolds

DOI10.1007/BF01214887zbMath0506.53016MaRDI QIDQ1836886

Steven Sedlacek

Publication date: 1982

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

zbMATH Keywords

Pontryagin classYang-Mills connectioncompact 4- manifoldsmethod of minimizing sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

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