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Uniqueness of the weak solutions of the Yang-Mills flow in four dimensions

Chak Hoi Chan·Min-Chun Hong
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We improve a parabolic version of Uhlenbeck's gauge fixing theorem for the Yang-Mills flow. This allows us to prove new existence of weak solutions of the Yang-Mills flow having with better properties than Struwe's weak solution on four manifolds in \cite {St2}. Finally, we apply the new parabolic version of Uhlenbeck's gauge fixing theorem to solve the Struwe problem in \cite {St2} and prove uniqueness of weak solutions to the Yang-Mills flow on compact four-manifolds with initial value $A_0 \in W^{1, 2}(M)$.

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Chak Hoi Chan, Min-Chun Hong. 2026-10-28. Uniqueness of the weak solutions of the Yang-Mills flow in four dimensions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38134

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