Publications [#152685] of Mark A Stern

Preprints

1. M.A. Stern, Geometry of minimal energy Yang-Mills connections (August, 2008) [arXiv:0808.0667]
   (last updated on 2008/12/12)

   Abstract:
   We study the converse to the statement that instantons are minimizers of the Yang--Mills energy in four dimensions. We show that given an energy minimizing connection, A, the curvature of A takes values in a subbundle of the adjoint bundle which decomposes as a sum of instantons.