Monopoles and maps from \(S^ 2\) to \(S^ 2\); the topology of the configuration space

DOI10.1007/BF01212403zbMath0594.58053MaRDI QIDQ1077055

Clifford Henry Taubes

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

topological propertiesmonopoletwisted Dirac operatorsYang-Mills-Higgs equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuous maps (54C05) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Homotopy groups (55Q99)

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