On the Optimal Regularity Implied by the Assumptions of Geometry II: Connections on Vector Bundles
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Abstract: We establish optimal regularity and Uhlenbeck compactness for connections on vector bundles over arbitrary base manifolds, including both Riemannian and Lorentzian manifolds, and allowing for both compact and non-compact Lie groups. The proof is based on the discovery of a non-linear system of elliptic equations, (the RT-equations), which provides the coordinate and gauge transformations that lift the regularity of a connection to one derivative above its curvature. This is a new mathematical principle. It extends theorems of Kazdan-DeTurck and Uhlenbeck from Riemannian to the Lorentzian geometry of General Relativity, including Yang-Mills connections of relativistic Physics.
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