A Chern number for gauge fields on R4

DOI10.1063/1.525505zbMath0521.53060OpenAlexW1963575353MaRDI QIDQ3670134

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

holonomyChern numbergauge fieldsYang-Mills equationscurvature decayChern-Weil formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Cites Work

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

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