The Nahm pole boundary condition

zbMATH Open1335.81111arXiv1311.3167MaRDI QIDQ3456243FDOQ3456243

Authors: Rafe Mazzeo, Edward Witten 

Publication date: 11 December 2015

Abstract: The Nahm pole boundary condition for certain gauge theory equations in four and five dimensions is defined by requiring that a solution should have a specified singularity along the boundary. In the present paper, we show that this boundary condition is elliptic and has regularity properties analogous to more standard elliptic boundary conditions. We also establish a uniqueness theorem for the solution of the relevant equations on a half-space with Nahm pole boundary conditions. These results are expected to have a generalization involving knots, with applications to the Jones polynomial and Khovanov homology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3167

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zbMATH Keywords

monopolesNahm equationsKapustin-Witten equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A34) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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