Geometry of minimal energy Yang-Mills connections

DOI10.4310/JDG/1299766686MaRDI QIDQ531756zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mark Stern

Publication date 20 April 2011

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0667, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1299766686

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi Yau manifoldsinstantonsYang-Mills connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20)

Abstract: We study the converse to the statement that instantons are minimizers of the Yang--Mills energy in four dimensions. We show that given an energy minimizing connection, A, the curvature of A takes values in a subbundle of the adjoint bundle which decomposes as a sum of instantons.

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