The variations of Yang-Mills Lagrangian

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-34953-0_15MaRDI QIDQ3300609zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tristan Rivière

Publication date 29 July 2020

Published in Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04554

zbMATH Keywords

instantonsYang-Millsgauge theoryconcentration compactnessconformally invariant variational problemscalibrated currentscalibrated geometric analysiscritical elliptic PDE

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Second-order elliptic systems (35J47) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

Abstract: Yang-Mills theory is growing at the interface between high energy physics and mathematics. It is well known that Yang-Mills theory and Gauge theory in general had a profound impact on the development of modern differential and algebraic geometry. One could quote Donaldson invariants in four dimensional differential topology, Hitchin Kobayashi conjecture relating the existence of Hermitian-Einstein metric on holomorphic bundles over K"ahler manifolds and Mumford stability in complex geometry or also Gromov Witten invariants in symplectic geometry...etc. While the influence of Gauge theory in geometry is quite notorious, one tends sometimes to forget that Yang-Mills theory has been also at the heart of fundamental progresses in the non-linear analysis of Partial Differential Equations in the last decades. The purpose of this mini-course is to present the variations of this important lagrangian. We shall raise analysis questions such as existence and regularity of Yang-Mills minimizers or such as the compactification of the moduli space of critical points to Yang-mills lagrangian in general. These notes correspond to a mini-course given by the author on the subject at the 9th summer school in Differential Geometry at the Korean Institute for Advanced Studies between june 23rd and june 27th 2014.

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