A framework for Morse theory for the Yang-Mills functional

DOI10.1007/BF01394329zbMath0665.58006MaRDI QIDQ1116130

Clifford Henry Taubes

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/143630

zbMATH Keywords

Morse theoryYang-Mills functionalnon-compact manifoldPontrjagin class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

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