Abelian gauge theory on Riemann surfaces and new topological invariants

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 456, Issue 1995, 2000, Pages 593-613

  Sibner, Lesley ^a   Sibner, Robert ^a   Yang, Yisong ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic classes; Complex line bundles; Leray schauder theorem; Self duality; Trudinger moser inequality; Vortices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042725110     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2000.0532     Document Type: Article

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