Monopoles and four-manifolds

DOI10.4310/MRL.1994.v1.n6.a13zbMath0867.57029arXivhep-th/9411102OpenAlexW2134155718WikidataQ56618742 ScholiaQ56618742MaRDI QIDQ1897747

Edward Witten

Publication date: 11 August 1996

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9411102

zbMATH Keywords

Seiberg-Witten invariantDonaldson invariantYang-Mills theorySeiberg-Witten equationsmonopole equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

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