The Space of Weak Connections in High Dimensions

Mircea Petrache; Tristan Rivière

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The Space of Weak Connections in High Dimensions

Mircea Petrache·Tristan Rivière

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The space of Sobolev connections, as it has been introduced for studying the variation of Yang-Mills Lagrangian in the critical dimension $4$, happens not to be weakly sequentially complete in dimension larger than $4$. This is a major obstruction for studying the variations of this important Lagrangian in high dimensions. The present paper generalizes the previous result of the authors from 'The resolution of the Yang-Mills Plateau problem in super-critical dimensions', Adv. Math. 316 (arxiv:1306.2010), valid in $5$ dimensions to arbitrary dimension and introduces a space of so called 'weak connections' for which we prove the weak sequential closure under Yang-Mills energy control. We also establish a strong approximation property of any weak connection by smooth connections away from codimension $5$ polyhedral sets. This last property is used in a subsequent work in preparation for establishing the partial regularity property for general stationary Yang-Mills weak connections.

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Mircea Petrache, Tristan Rivière. 2018-12-11. The Space of Weak Connections in High Dimensions. https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04432

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