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Limits of Yang-Mills {\alpha}-connections

Differential Geometry 2017-05-18 v1

Abstract

In the spirit of recent work of Lamm, Malchiodi and Micallef in the setting of harmonic maps, we identify Yang-Mills connections obtained by approximations with respect to the Yang-Mills {\alpha}-energy. More specifically, we show that for the SU(2) Hopf fibration over the four sphere, for sufficiently small {\alpha} values the SO(4) invariant ADHM instanton is the unique {\alpha}-critical point which has Yang-Mills {\alpha}-energy lower than a specific threshold.

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@article{arxiv.1705.06104,
  title  = {Limits of Yang-Mills {\alpha}-connections},
  author = {Casey Lynn Kelleher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06104},
  year   = {2017}
}