An instanton-invariant for 3-manifolds

DOI10.1007/BF01218578zbMath0684.53027WikidataQ57309150 ScholiaQ57309150MaRDI QIDQ1825446

Publication date: 1988

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

moduli spaces; Casson invariant; homology 3-sphere; anti-self-dual curvature tensor; Chern-Simons function on the space of connections; Euler characteristic of Floer homology; Flat SU(2) connections; instanton solutions of the Yang-Mills equations; invariants for 3-manifolds; representations of \(\pi _ 1(M)\) in SU(2)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C55: Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds

81T08: Constructive quantum field theory

53C05: Connections (general theory)

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