Self-dual connections and the topology of smooth 4-manifolds
DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15090-5zbMath0519.57012WikidataQ54250741 ScholiaQ54250741MaRDI QIDQ3668501
Publication date: 1983
Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)
singularitiesmoduli spaceself-dual connectionsYang-Mills theorygauge theoryKummer surfaceoriented cobordismexotic differentiable structures on 4-spacefailure of smooth surgery in four dimensionsfirst Stiefel-Whitney class for the analytic index of family of elliptic differential operatorsgauge equivalence classes of smooth connectionsintersection form of a smooth, compact, simply connected oriented four- dimensional manifold
Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)
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