A topologist's account of Yang-Mills theory

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Authors John McCleary

Publication date 17 January 1993

Published in Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Weil theoryinstantonmagnetic monopole

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Review text

The gauge theories are, perhaps, the most important modern domain of interaction between physics and mathematics. The purpose of this paper, excellent solved by the author, is to account for some essential problems in this field. There are presented the necessary notions and theorems from differential geometry field, like the principal bundles, bundle maps, connections, curvature forms, the Hodge star operator and others. Next, the Yang-Mills functional is defined. In order to study the instanton (an absolute minimum for the Yang-Mills functional), the Chern- Weil theory is presented. As a concrete example the magnetic monopole is considered. -- The bibliography contains 28 very rigorously selected references.

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