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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151939003321

Autore

Wehrheim Katrin

Titolo

Uhlenbeck Compactness [[electronic resource] /] / Katrin Wehrheim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zuerich, Switzerland, : European Mathematical Society Publishing House, 2004

ISBN

3-03719-504-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 pages)

Collana

EMS Series of Lectures in Mathematics (ELM) ; , 2523-5176

Classificazione

58-xx35-xx46-xx81-xx

Soggetti

Functional analysis

Global analysis, analysis on manifolds

Partial differential equations

Quantum theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book gives a detailed account of the analytic foundations of gauge theory - Uhlenbeck's compactness theorems for general connections and for Yang-Mills connections. It intends to guide graduate students into the analysis of Yang-Mills theory as well as to serve as a reference for researchers in the field.  The book is largely self-contained. It contains a number of appendices (e.g. on Sobolev spaces of maps between manifolds) and an introductory part covering the Lp-regularity theory for the inhomogenous Neumann problem. The two main parts contain the full proofs of Uhlenbeck's weak and strong compactness theorems on closed manifolds as well as their generalizations to manifolds with boundary and noncompact manifolds. These parts include a number of useful analytic tools such as general patching constructions and local slice theorems.