A Chern number for gauge fields on R4

DOI10.1063/1.525505MaRDI QIDQ3670134zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

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

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

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