Asymptotical behaviour of the Yang-Mills flow and singular Yang-Mills connections

Harmonic Mappings of Riemannian Manifolds

James Eells, J. H. Sampson · American Journal of Mathematics · 1964 · 2.2K citations

Natural Sciences, Aerospace Engineering, Descriptive Geometry +8

The Yang-Mills equations over Riemann surfaces

Michael Atiyah, Raoul Bott · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1983 · 2K citations

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Anti Self-Dual Yang-Mills Connections Over Complex Algebraic Surfaces and Stable Vector Bundles

Simon Donaldson · Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society · 1985 · 1.1K citations

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On the existence of hermitian-yang-mills connections in stable vector bundles

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Vortices and monopoles.

John Preskill · 1986 · 742 citations