The uniqueness of tangent cones for Yang-Mills connections with isolated singularities.

DOI10.1016/S0001-8708(03)00016-1MaRDI QIDQ1421389zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 26 January 2004

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0203077

asymptotic convergence gauge transformations tangent cone variational inequality Yang-Mills connection

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

Abstract: We proved a uniqueness theorem of tangent connections for a Yang-Mills connection with an isolated singularity with a quadratic growth of the curvature at the singularity. We also obtained controls over the rate of the asymptotic convergence of the connection to the tangent connection under assumptions that the connection is stationary or the tangent connection is integrable. There are parallel results for the cones at infinity of a Yang-Mills connection on an asymptotically flat manifold. We also gave an application of our methods to the Yang-Mills flow and proved that the Yang-Mills flow exists for all time and has asymptotic limit if the initial value is close to a smooth local minimizer of the Yang-Mills functional.

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Let \(M\) be an \(n\)-dimensional manifold and \(E\) a vector bundle associated to a principal bundle \(P\) on \(M\) with compact structure group \(G\). Assuming that \((M, g)\) is an \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold, \(n\geq 5\), \(x_0\in M\) and \((E,h)\) a bundle over \(M\)-\(\{x_0\}\), \(h\) being a \(G\)-invariant metric, let \(A\) be a Yang-Mills connection on \(E\) with an isolated singularity at \(x_0\). The author proves the uniqueness, up to gauge transformations, of the tangent cone (or tangent connection) of \(A\) at \(x_0\), under a quadratic growth assumption on the curvature of \(A\) in a neighbourhood of \(x_0\). He also gives an estimate of the rate of the asymptotic convergence of \(A\) to its cone when \(A\) is stationary, since in this case the a priori estimates of \textit{K. K. Uhlenbeck} [Commun. Math. Phys. 83, 31--42 (1982; Zbl 0499.58019)] and \textit{H. Nakajima} [J. Math. Soc. Japan 40, No. 3, 383--392 (1988; Zbl 0647.53030)] ensure the growth condition on the curvature of \(A\). Furthermore, such a convergence rate becomes faster when the tangent cone is assumed to be integrable, even for non-stationary \(A\). Technically, since the Yang-Mills equation has a degenerate elliptic nature, the author looks for a suitable gauge (using Coulomb gauge) having a long time existence so that he can adapt \textit{L. Simon's} method [Ann. Math. (2) 118, 525--571 (1983; Zbl 0549.35071)]. This is achieved by means of a partition of the existence interval of the solution in three parts corresponding to different growth behaviours of the norm of the solution. Such behaviours are modelled on those of the solutions to the linearized equations, and this allows to control their norms on each interval using techniques differing from the variational inequality by Simon and the property that, under the constructed gauge, the time derivative of the connection is uniformly small on the existence interval. Finally, the author considers Yang-Mills (Y-M) flows which start from a connection sufficiently close, in norm, to a smooth local minimizer of the Y-M functional and he proves the asymptotic convergence to a suitable Y-M connection near the minimizer. Again he constructs a suitable gauge and uses the Simon result for parabolic evolution equations.

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