Variational aspects of the Seiberg-Witten functional

DOI10.1007/BF01254344zbMath0852.58020arXivdg-ga/9504003MaRDI QIDQ1913316

Xiao-Wei Peng, Guofang Wang, Juergen Jost

Publication date: 26 November 1996

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9504003

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equations; Palais-Smale condition; Seiberg-Witten functional; 4-dimensional geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C07: Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills)

58E15: Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals

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