Minimizers of higher order gauge invariant functionals

DOI10.1007/S12220-015-9584-8zbMATH Open1353.58007arXiv1501.02089OpenAlexW1995460386MaRDI QIDQ282807FDOQ282807

Christoph Scheven, Andreas Gastel

Publication date: 12 May 2016

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce higher order variants of the Yang-Mills functional that involve $(n-2)$th order derivatives of the curvature. We prove coercivity and smoothness of critical points in Uhlenbeck gauge in dimensions $mathrmdimMle2n$. These results are then used to establish the existence of smooth minimizers on a given principal bundle $PoM$ for subcritical dimensions $mathrmdimM<2n$. In the case of critical dimension $mathrmdimM=2n$ we construct a minimizer on a bundle which might differ from the prescribed one, but has the same Chern classes $c_1,ldots,c_{n-1}$. A key result is a removable singularity theorem for bundles carrying a $W^{n-1,2}$-connection. This generalizes a recent result by Petrache and Rivi`ere.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02089

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zbMATH Keywords

minimizersregularityChern classesgauge invariantcritical dimensionbi-Yang-Mills functionalhigher orderPetrache-Riviere removable singularityUhlenbeck gaugeYang-Mills functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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