Singularity Formation of the Yang-Mills Flow
Presenter
January 15, 2016
Keywords:
- differential geometry
- manifolds
- curvature
- geodesic flow
- Yang-Mills equations
- Hausdorff dimension
- singularities
- stratification
MSC:
- 53-xx
- 53Cxx
- 53C05
- 53C07
- 53C15
- 53C22
- 53C44
- 54A20
- 28A78
Abstract
We explore the structure of the singularities of Yang-Mills flow in dimensions n ≥ 4. First we derive a description of the singular set in terms of concentration for a localized entropy quantity, which leads to an estimate of its Hausdorff dimension. We develop a theory of tangent measures for the flow at such singular points, which leads to a stratification of the singular set. By a refined blowup analysis we obtain Yang-Mills connections or solitons as blowup limits at any point in the singular set. This is joint work with Jeffrey Streets.