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

Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Connections (general theory) (53C05)

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