Stability in {Yang-Mills} Theories

Jul, 1983
47 pages
Published in:
  • Commun.Math.Phys. 91 (1983) 235
Report number:
  • HUTMP-83-B136

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Abstract: (Springer)
At a solution of the Yang-Mills equations onS4, or the Yang-Mills-Higgs equation on ℝ3, the hessian of the action functional defines a natural second order, elliptic operator. The number of negative eigenvalues of this operator is bounded below by a multiple of the relevant topological charge. The proof of this assertion requires a relative index theorem for Dirac-type operators on ℝn,n≧3.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: YANG-MILLS
  • CHARGE: TOPOLOGICAL
  • FIELD EQUATIONS
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(2)
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: OPERATOR ALGEBRA
  • AXIOMATIC FIELD THEORY