An open 4-manifold having no instanton

DOI10.1007/s10455-011-9256-2zbMath1257.53043arXiv1004.3394MaRDI QIDQ717136

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

Yang-Mills theory; instanton; infinite connected sum; open 4-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C07: Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills)

57R65: Surgery and handlebodies

58E15: Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals

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