scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3892210

Publication date: 1984

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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 ${\mathbb{R}}^ 4$

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Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60) Differential complexes (58J10) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis (58-02) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) General binary quadratic forms (11E16) Stable homotopy of spheres (55Q45)

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