Energy gap for Yang-Mills connections. II: Arbitrary closed Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2017.03.023zbMATH Open1375.58013arXiv1502.00668OpenAlexW2134723900WikidataQ115362020 ScholiaQ115362020MaRDI QIDQ526360FDOQ526360

Paul M. N. Feehan

Publication date: 10 May 2017

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this sequel to [arXiv:1412.4114], we prove an $L^{d/2}$ energy gap result for Yang-Mills connections on principal $G$-bundles, $P$, over arbitrary, closed, Riemannian, smooth manifolds of dimension $dgeq2$. We apply our version of the Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality [arXiv:1409.1525, arXiv:1510.03815] to remove a positivity constraint on a combination of the Ricci and Riemannian curvatures in a previous $L^{d/2}$-energy gap result due to Gerhardt (2010) and a previous $L^{i}nfty$-energy gap result due to Bourguignon, Lawson, and Simons (1981, 1979), as well as an $L^2$-energy gap result due to Nakajima (1987) for a Yang-Mills connection over the sphere, $S^d$, but with an arbitrary Riemannian metric. The main correction in this version involves replacement of the role of Corollary 4.3 due to Uhlenbeck (1985) and Theorem 5.1 due to the author in the published version of this article at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2017.03.023 by that of Theorems 1 and 9 due to the author in arXiv:1906.03954.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00668

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zbMATH Keywords

Coulomb gaugegauge theoryflat connectionsMorse theory on Banach manifoldsYang-Mills connectionsclosed Riemannian manifoldsenergy gapsLojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequalityUhlenbeck curvature estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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