Variational aspects of the Seiberg-Witten functional

DOI10.1007/BF01254344MaRDI QIDQ1913316zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xiao-Wei Peng, Guofang Wang, Jürgen Jost

Publication date 26 November 1996

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9504003

zbMATH Keywords

4-dimensional geometryEuler-Lagrange equationsPalais-Smale conditionSeiberg-Witten functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: The Seiberg-Witten equations that have recently found important applications for four-dimensional geometry are the Euler-Lagrange equations for a functional involving a connection $A$ on a line bundle $L$ and a section $phi$ of another bundle $W^{+}$ constructed from $L$ and a spinor bundle on a given four-dimensional Riemannian manifold. We show the regularity of weak solutions and the Palais-Smale condition for this functional.

Review text

\textit{N. Seiberg} and \textit{E. Witten} [Nucl. Phys., B 426, No. 1, 19-52 (1994)] introduced a new monopole equation which yields new differential-topological invariants of 4-dimensional manifolds, closely related to Donaldson's polynomial invariants. The authors define the Seiberg-Witten functional and consider the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations. It is shown that their weak solutions are smooth. The main result is that this functional satisfies the Palais-Smale condition. As a consequence, the existence of unstable solutions is proved, which can be used to define more invariants for 4-manifolds.

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