Bott, Raoul Morse theory and the Yang-Mills equations. (English) Zbl 0486.58009 Differential geometrical methods in mathematical physics, Proc. Conf. Aix-en-Provence and Salamanca 1979, Lect. Notes Math. 836, 269-275 (1980). Page: −5 −4 −3 −2 −1 ±0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 Show Scanned Page Cited in 1 Document MSC: 58E05 Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel’man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces 55R35 Classifying spaces of groups and \(H\)-spaces in algebraic topology 81T08 Constructive quantum field theory 57S99 Topological transformation groups 30F99 Riemann surfaces Keywords:classifying space of group; Morse theory; approach to the problem of extremals of Yang-Mills functionals; equivariant Morse series; Yang-Mills functional in the linear U(n)-theory for any Riemann surface as the base space; perfect Morse function; critical points; Poincare polynomial; equivariant Morse theory Citations:Zbl 0436.00018; Zbl 0475.53060 PDFBibTeX XML