Seiberg-Witten monopole equations on noncommutative ℝ4

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 4527-4554

  Popov, Alexander D ^a,b   Sergeev, Armen G ^c   Wolf, Martin ^a,d  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 0142136722     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1604454     Document Type: Article

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