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Long-time existence for Yang-Mills flow

Differential Geometry 2023-05-24 v4 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We establish that finite-time singularities do not occur in four-dimensional Yang-Mills flow, confirming the conjecture of Schlatter, Struwe, and Tahvildar-Zadeh. The proof relies on a weighted energy identity and sharp decay estimates in the neck region.

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@article{arxiv.1610.03424,
  title  = {Long-time existence for Yang-Mills flow},
  author = {Alex Waldron},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03424},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Final version accepted in Inventiones. 56pp

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