Master spaces and the coupling principle: From geometric invariant theory to gauge theory

DOI10.1007/s002200050685zbMath0959.14028MaRDI QIDQ1809234

Andrei Teleman, Christian Okonek

Publication date: 16 December 1999

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002200050685

zbMATH Keywords

geometric invariant theory; Seiberg-Witten invariants; Donaldson invariants; master spaces; coupling principle; Gromov invariants; gauge theoretical invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

14L24: Geometric invariant theory

14N35: Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects)

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

14J80: Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants)

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