A multiplicity estimate for the Jacobi operator of a nonflat Yang-Mills field over S^m

DOI10.1007/S10711-023-00817-8MaRDI QIDQ6093589zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Lei Ni

Publication date 7 September 2023

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08090

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapsJacobi operatorYang-Mills connectionsYang-Mills functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15)

Abstract: Here we provide refinements of the stability results of Simons and Xin, concerning the stability of Yang-Mills fields and harmonic maps respectively. The result also implies the earlier Morse index estimates for both cases.

Review text

This article presents extensions of previously known results, with a significant portion of them focusing on geometric aspects of Yang-Mills theory. More precisely, the paper describes refinements of stability properties of Yang-Mills fields and harmonic maps in Yang-Mills theory and differential geometry, respectively. Such stability properties have played a significant role in geometry and physics in the past four decades. The article is well-written and contains detailed proofs of the main results that can be easily understood even by non-specialists. The first two sections provide an excellent overview of the state of the art of the field and serve as a starting point for reading the main part of the article (Sections 3 and 4). The primary result of the paper is Theorem 1.3, which, as the author mentions, is an improvement of previously established results for harmonic maps and Yang-Mills connections.

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• Instability of solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau equation on \(S^n\) and \(\mathbb{C} \mathbb{P}^n\)

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