Introduction to gauge theory
Differential Geometry
2019-10-24 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
This is lecture notes for a course given at the PCMI Summer School "Quantum Field Theory and Manifold Invariants" (July 1 -- July 5, 2019). I describe basics of gauge-theoretic approach to construction of invariants of manifolds. The main example considered here is the Seiberg--Witten gauge theory. However, I tried to present the material in a form, which is suitable for other gauge-theoretic invariants too.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1910.10436,
title = {Introduction to gauge theory},
author = {Andriy Haydys},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.10436},
year = {2019}
}