An open 4-manifold having no instanton

DOI10.1007/S10455-011-9256-2MaRDI QIDQ717136zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Masaki Tsukamoto

Publication date 27 September 2011

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3394

zbMATH Keywords

instantonYang-Mills theoryinfinite connected sumopen 4-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

Abstract: Taubes proved that all compact oriented four-manifolds admit non-flat instantons. We show that there exists a non-compact oriented four-manifold having no non-flat instanton.

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