Abelian gauge theory on Riemann surfaces and new topological invariants

DOI10.1098/rspa.2000.0532zbMath0978.53059OpenAlexW2071838936MaRDI QIDQ4946525

Yisong Yang, Robert J. Sibner, Lesley M. Sibner

Publication date: 28 August 2000

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2000.0532

zbMATH Keywords

complex line bundlevortexself-dualityTrudinger-Moser inequalityLeray-Schauder fixed-point theoremcharacteristic class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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