13.12.2023, 14:00
– Campus Golm, Building 9, Room 2.22
Institutskolloquium
Exploring the International Mathematical Union
Norbert Schappacher (Strasbourg), Marie-Françoise Roy (Rennes)
Chandrashekar Devchand (MPI, Golm)
Recent papers by Uhlenbeck and Taubes have raised expectations that the field theory equations discussed by Kapustin and Witten in 2006 have a significance for complex four-manifolds analogous to that of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations for Donaldson's theory of real four-manifolds. I will give an introduction to these equations, including some aspects intimately related to some earlier work of mine.