{"product_id":"lectures-on-seiberg-witten-invariants-9783540412212","title":"Lectures on Seiberg-Witten Invariants","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John D. Moore\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mathematical Analysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiemannian, symplectic and complex geometry are often studied by means ofsolutions to systems ofnonlinear differential equations, such as the equa- tions of geodesics, minimal surfaces, pseudoholomorphic curves and Yang- Mills connections. For studying such equations, a new unified technology has been developed, involving analysis on infinite-dimensional manifolds. A striking applications of the new technology is Donaldson's theory of \"anti-self-dual\" connections on SU(2)-bundles over four-manifolds, which applies the Yang-Mills equations from mathematical physics to shed light on the relationship between the classification of topological and smooth four-manifolds. This reverses the expected direction of application from topology to differential equations to mathematical physics. Even though the Yang-Mills equations are only mildly nonlinear, a prodigious amount of nonlinear analysis is necessary to fully understand the properties of the space of solutions. . At our present state of knowledge, understanding smooth structures on topological four-manifolds seems to require nonlinear as opposed to linear PDE's. It is therefore quite surprising that there is a set of PDE's which are even less nonlinear than the Yang-Mills equation, but can yield many of the most important results from Donaldson's theory. These are the Seiberg-Witte equations. These lecture notes stem from a graduate course given at the University of California in Santa Barbara during the spring quarter of 1995. The objective was to make the Seiberg-Witten approach to Donaldson theory accessible to second-year graduate students who had already taken basic courses in differential geometry and algebraic topology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45280418594967,"sku":"9783540412212","price":2938.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783540412212.webp?v=1769296266","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lectures-on-seiberg-witten-invariants-9783540412212","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}