Elliptic Yang-Mills flow theory

DOI10.1002/MANA.201400109zbMATH Open1327.58017arXiv1303.1401OpenAlexW2143148709MaRDI QIDQ5265356FDOQ5265356

Authors: Rémi Janner, Jan Swoboda 

Publication date: 23 July 2015

Published in: Mathematische Nachrichten (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We lay the foundations of a Morse homology on the space of connections on a principal $G$-bundle over a compact manifold $Y$, based on a newly defined gauge-invariant functional $mathcalJ$. While the critical points of $mathcalJ$ correspond to Yang-Mills connections on $P$, its $L^2$-gradient gives rise to a novel system of elliptic equations. This contrasts previous approaches to a study of the Yang-Mills functional via a parabolic gradient flow. We carry out the complete analytical details of our program in the case of a compact two-dimensional base manifold $Y$. We furthermore discuss its relation to the well-developed parabolic Morse homology of Riemannian surfaces. Finally, an application of our elliptic theory is given to three-dimensional product manifolds $Y=Sigmaimes{S}^1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1401

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zbMATH Keywords

Yang-Mills functionalMorse homologyspectral flownonlinear Cauchy-Riemann equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Spectral flows (58J30)

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