Higher order Yang-Mills flow (Q2415234)

The author has defined a family of functionals generalizing the Yang-Mills functionals and has investigated the corresponding gradient flows. Furthermore he has proved long-time existence and convergence results for subcritical dimensions and a bubbling criterion for critical dimensions. Thus the author has generalized the results of the convergence of Yang-Mills flows in dimensions 2 and 3 by \textit{J. Råde} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 431, 123--163 (1992; Zbl 0760.58041)] as well as the bubbling criterion in dimension 4 of \textit{M. Struwe} [Calc. Var. Partial Differ. Equ. 2, No. 2, 123--150 (1994; Zbl 0807.58010)] in the case where the initial flow data is smooth. The author has provided a self-contained presentation of results with nice proofs.