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Singularity Formation of the Yang-Mills Flow

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January 15, 2016
Keywords:
  • differential geometry
  • manifolds
  • curvature
  • geodesic flow
  • Yang-Mills equations
  • Hausdorff dimension
  • singularities
  • stratification
MSC:
  • 53-xx
  • 53Cxx
  • 53C05
  • 53C07
  • 53C15
  • 53C22
  • 53C44
  • 54A20
  • 28A78
Abstract
We explore the structure of the singularities of Yang-Mills flow in dimensions n ≥ 4. First we derive a description of the singular set in terms of concentration for a localized entropy quantity, which leads to an estimate of its Hausdorff dimension. We develop a theory of tangent measures for the flow at such singular points, which leads to a stratification of the singular set. By a refined blowup analysis we obtain Yang-Mills connections or solitons as blowup limits at any point in the singular set. This is joint work with Jeffrey Streets.
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