Global existence of the m-equivariant Yang-Mills flow in four dimensional spaces

Communications in Analysis and Geometry

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 183-211

  Hong, Min Chun ^a   Tian, Gang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 4043122493     PISSN: 10198385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CAG.2004.v12.n1.a10     Document Type: Article

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