Morse theory for the Yang-Mills functional via equivariant homotopy theory

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-00-02562-9MaRDI QIDQ4485701zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ursula Gritsch

Publication date 18 June 2000

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0101024

zbMATH Keywords

equivariant gauge theoryequivariant homotopy theorynon-minimal critical pointsYang-Mills functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equivariant homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55P91) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

Abstract: In this paper we show the existence of non minimal critical points of the Yang-Mills functional over a certain family of 4-manifolds with generic SU(2)-invariant metrics using Morse and homotopy theoretic methods. These manifolds are acted on fixed point freely by the Lie group SU(2) with quotient a compact Riemann surface of even genus. We use a version of invariant Morse theory for the Yang-Mills functional used by Parker and by Rade.

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