Curvature of Yang-Mills moduli spaces near the boundary. I (Q1905457)

Consider the moduli space \({\mathcal M}\) of self-dual connections on a principal \(SU (2)\)-bundle over a compact Riemannian 4-manifold \((M,g)\). This paper considers the problem of differentiability at the boundary and the geometry of the collar. Evidence for a conjecture concerning the smoothness of the extension of the natural Riemannian metric on \({\mathcal M}\) to \(\overline {\mathcal M}\) is presented.