Seminar on Yang - Mills theory
Seminar: Fundamentals of Yang - Mills theory
The seminar will begin on December 17, 2019, 10:30am in SeMath008 with an introductory lecture by Christof Melcher. Further sessions will be announced in the events section.
Contents:
Connections on fibre bundles, curvature, Chern-Weil theory, Yang-Mills equations,
self-dual solutions, topological solitons and instantons.
References:
- M. Atiyah: Geometry of Yang-Mills fields
- H. Flanders: Differential forms
- D. Freed, K. Uhlenbeck: Instantons and four-manifolds
- Y. Yang: Solitons in field theory and nonlinear analysis
For questions, please feel free to contact Olaf Wittich via email.
On request the seminar will be held in English.