The orientation of Yang-Mills moduli spaces and 4-manifold topology

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214441485zbMATH Open0683.57005OpenAlexW1783633298WikidataQ115184368 ScholiaQ115184368MaRDI QIDQ1824909FDOQ1824909

Authors: S. K. Donaldson 

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214441485

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge theorycanonical orientation of the Yang- Mills moduli spaceindex theory for differential operatorsintersection forms of closed smooth 4-manifoldsmoduli space of anti-self-dual connections on SU(2) bundlescomplex Kähler surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) (h)- and (s)-cobordism (57R80)

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