Stability in Yang-Mills theories

DOI10.1007/BF01211160zbMath0524.58020MaRDI QIDQ584797

Clifford Henry Taubes

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

gauge groupsecond Chern classBochner-Weitzenboeck formulaeinstanton moduli spacesinstanton numberYang-Mills Hessian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Geometric quantization (53D50) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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