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Long-Time Behaviour of the Yang--Mills Flow in Four Dimensions

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We investigate the long-time behaviour and the behaviour at singularities of the Yang--Mills heat flow in four dimensions with finite energy initial data. In addition we shall give an upper bound for the total number of singularities.

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    Andreas Schlatter

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Schlatter, A. Long-Time Behaviour of the Yang--Mills Flow in Four Dimensions. Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry 15, 1–25 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006541305639

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