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Quantitative stratification of stationary connections

Differential Geometry 2018-03-20 v2

Abstract

Let AA be a connection of a principal bundle PP over a Riemannian manifold MM, such that its curvature FALloc2(M)F_A\in L_{\text{loc}}^2(M) satisfies the stationarity equation. It is a consequence of the stationarity that θA(x,r)=ecr2r4nBr(x)FA2\theta_A(x,r)=e^{cr^2}r^{4-n}\int_{B_r(x)}|F_A|^2 is monotonically increasing in rr, for some cc depending only on the local geometry of MM. We are interested in the singular set defined by S(A)={x:limr0θA(x,r)0}S(A)=\{x: \lim_{r\to 0}\theta_A(x,r)\neq 0\}, and its stratification S^k(A)=\{x: \text{no tangent measure at xis is (k+1)-symmetric}\}. We then introduce and study the quantitative stratification Sϵk(A)S^k_{\epsilon}(A). Roughly speaking, Sϵk(A)S^k_{\epsilon}(A) consists of points at which no tangent measure of AA is ϵ\epsilon-close to being (k+1)(k+1)-symmetric. In the main Theorem, we show that SϵkS^k_{\epsilon} is kk-rectifiable and satisfies the Minkowski volume estimate Vol(Br(Sϵk)B1)Crnk\text{Vol}(B_r(S^k_{\epsilon})\cap B_1)\le Cr^{n-k}. Lastly, we apply the main theorems to the stationary Yang-Mills connections to obtain a rectifiability theorem that extends some previously known results by G. Tian.

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@article{arxiv.1610.00351,
  title  = {Quantitative stratification of stationary connections},
  author = {Yu Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00351},
  year   = {2018}
}

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