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Compactness Theorems for Invariant Connections

Differential Geometry 2016-09-07 v1

Abstract

Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the Palais-Smale Condition C to hold for the Yang-Mills functional for connections that are invariant under a Lie group action on the manifold with orbits of codimension less than or equal to three. As an application the mountain pass lemma is used to give a simple proof of Wang's theorem on the existence of irreducible non-(anti-)selfdual instantons on S^2 x S^2 .

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@article{arxiv.math/0004041,
  title  = {Compactness Theorems for Invariant Connections},
  author = {Johan Rade},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0004041},
  year   = {2016}
}

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24 pages, plain TeX. This paper is an updated version of dg-ga/9704007