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Global solution for the Yang-Mills gradient flow on 4-manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Hideo Kozono
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Polymathematics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-01, Japan
Yoshiaki Maeda
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, 223, Japan The Erwin Schrödinger International, Institute for Mathematical Physics, Wien, A-1090, Austria
Hisashi Naito
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Polymathematics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-01, Japan
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In this paper, we will study a global weak solution for the Yang-Mills gradient flow on a closed (i.e., compact without boundary) 4-manifold. Let us explain some notion briefly to be able to state our results.

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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1995

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