Instantons and Four-manifolds |
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Preface to the Second Edition | 1 |
5 Orientability | 5 |
Glossary | 12 |
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2-forms 4-manifold action adjoint anti-self-dual argument b₁ Chern Chern class classifying cohomology compact complex compute concentrated instanton conformally invariant construction convergent coordinates curvature defined denote diffeomorphism differentiable structure dimension Donaldson's Theorem elliptic elliptic complex embedded equivariant estimate exists finite dimensional fixed follows framed cobordism Fredholm function gauge transformations geometry H₁ H₁(M H²(M Hence Hilbert space homeomorphic homology homotopy implies instanton intersection form invertible kernel LEMMA Lie algebra line bundle linear manifold metric g moduli space N¹(ad neighborhood nonlinear nontrivial norm open set operator oriented orthogonal positive definite principal bundle proof PROPOSITION prove reducible connections Riemannian satisfies self-dual connections smooth Sobolev Sobolev spaces solutions Taubes theory topological trivial vanishes vector bundle Weitzenböck formula Yang-Mills connection Yang-Mills equations