A Chern number for gauge fields on R4

DOI10.1063/1.525505zbMATH Open0521.53060OpenAlexW1963575353MaRDI QIDQ3670134FDOQ3670134

Roger Schlafly

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525505

zbMATH Keywords

holonomygauge fieldsChern numberYang-Mills equationscurvature decayChern-Weil formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Geometric quantization (53D50) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

Cites Work

• Self-duality in four-dimensional Riemannian geometry
• Some remarks on the paper of Callias
• Removable singularities in Yang-Mills fields

Cited In (3)

• The Chern classes of Sobolev connections
• The index of scattering operators of Dirac equations. II
• Nonlinear programming on a microcomputer

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