Publication:5185713

Publication date: 1984

moduli space; self-dual connections; Yang-Mills theory; Weitzenböck formulas; elliptic complex; Pontryagin-Thom construction; space of connections; group of Sobolev gauge transformations; instanton solutions of Yang-Mills equations; intersection form of a simply connected oriented 4-manifold; non standard differentiable structures over \({\mathbb{R}}^ 4\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58J20: Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds

58D05: Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds

58J60: Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.)

58J10: Differential complexes

58-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis

53-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry

53C05: Connections (general theory)

57-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes

58E15: Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals

55R10: Fiber bundles in algebraic topology

57R19: Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology

11E16: General binary quadratic forms

55Q45: Stable homotopy of spheres

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