Critical-exponent Sobolev norms and the slice theorem for the quotient space of connections.

DOI10.2140/PJM.2001.200.71zbMATH Open1052.58014arXivdg-ga/9711004OpenAlexW3101431489MaRDI QIDQ700581FDOQ700581

Authors: Paul M. N. Feehan 

Publication date: 22 October 2002

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The use of certain critical-exponent Sobolev norms is an important feature of methods employed by Taubes to solve the anti-self-dual and similar non-linear elliptic partial differential equations. Indeed, the estimates one can obtain using these critical-exponent norms appear to be the best possible when one needs to bound the norm of a Green's operator for a Laplacian, depending on a connection varying in a non-compact family, in terms of minimal data such as the first positive eigenvalue of the Laplacian or the L^2 norm of the curvature of the connection. Following Taubes, we describe a collection of critical-exponent Sobolev norms and general Green's operator estimates depending only on first positive eigenvalues or the L^2 norm of the connection's curvature. Such estimates are particularly useful in the gluing construction of solutions to non-linear partial differential equations depending on a degenerating parameter, such as the approximate, reference solution in the anti-self-dual or PU(2) monopole equations. We apply them here to prove an optimal slice theorem for the quotient space of connections. The result is optimal in the sense that if a point [A] in the quotient space is known to be just L^2_1-close enough to a reference point [A_0], then the connection A can be placed in Coulomb gauge relative to the connection A_0, with all constants depending at most on the first positive eigenvalue of the covariant Laplacian defined by A_0 and the L^2 norm of the curvature of A_0. In this paper we shall for simplicity only consider connections over four-dimensional manifolds, but the methods and results can adapted to manifolds of arbitrary dimension to prove slice theorems which apply when the reference connection is allowed to degenerate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9711004

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zbMATH Keywords

Green's operatorslice theoremcritical-exponent Sobolev normgauge-fixing theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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