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What is known about the Yang-Mills stratification over 3-manifolds?
Rade proved in his thesis (Crelle's Journal, 1992, available here: digizeitschriften.de/dms/toc/?PPN=PPN243919689) that if $E\rightarrow M$ is a $U(n)$-bundle over a 3-manifold, then the gradient flow ...
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Laplacian spectrum asymptotics in neck stretching
Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold. Let $S \subset M$ be a smooth hypersurface separating $M$ into two components. Let $g_T$ be a family of Riemannian metric obtained by stretching along $S$, i....
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Yang Mills gradient/heat flow on 4-torus
The classic Donaldson-Kronheimer book (Geometry of 4-manifolds) uses the Yang Mills gradient flow (sometimes called heat flow) on $M$ all over the place,
$\frac{d A}{dt} = -\frac{\delta YM(A)}{\delta ...
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Banach Manifold
Let $M$ and $N$ be closed manifolds. Is it true that
$C^{k}(N,M)$, which is the space of functions $f: N\to M$ such that $f\in C^{k}$, is a $C^{\infty}$ Banach manifold? If so, can you help me to ...
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Reference request: $\mathcal{C}^\infty_c(M)$ is a topological vector space with the Whitney topology
Let $M$ be a smooth manifold and let $\mathcal{C}^\infty(M)$ be the space of all smooth real valued functions with the (strong) Whitney topology. This space is a topological vector space iff $M$ is ...
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Is the space of smooth maps $C^{\infty}(M,N)$ with the Whitney $C^{\infty}$ topology locally compact, if $M$ is compact
The title says it all:
Let $M$ be a compact manifold and $N$ a (possible non compact) manifold. Equip the space of smooth functions $C^{\infty}(M,N)$ with the Whitney $C^{\infty}$ topology. (The ...
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Right inverse of the Seiberg-Witten functional
For closed 4 manifold X, we consider the derivative of the Seiberg-Witten functional, i.e.
$$\Omega^1_2(X;\sqrt{-1}\mathbb R)\oplus\Gamma_2(S^+)\overset{D}{\to}\Omega^2_{+,1}(X;\sqrt{-1}\mathbb R)\...
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Shrinking $\mathcal{C}_c^{\infty}(M)$ to obtain a first countable space
This is a follow-up to this question.
Let $M$ be manifold (Hausdorff, countable base, finite dimensional, if it simplifies anything embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$).
I'm interested in the topological ...
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How to minimize this sparse quadratic function?
There is a problem when I'm reading a paper.
Equation:
$min_p|p-p^*|^2+\alpha |R(p)|^2 + \beta |D(p)-\delta|^2$,
where $p, p^*, R(p), D(p), \delta$ are all $M\times N$ matrices, and $p^*, R(), D(), ...
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Gauge Fixing Problem on Cylindrical
For Cylindrical $Y\times\mathbb R$, where $Y$ is a closed oriented 3-manifold.
If it is necessary, we could consider the $b_1(Y)=0$ case.
Fix a Line bundle $L\to Y\times \mathbb R$ and a Hermitian ...
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