Parabolic gap theorems for the Yang-Mills energy
Parabolic gap theorems for the Yang-Mills energy
We prove parabolic versions of several known gap theorems in classical Yang-Mills theory. On an $\mathrm{SU}(r)$-bundle of charge $\kappa$ over the 4-sphere, we show that the space of all connections with Yang-Mills energy less than $4 \pi^2 \left( |\kappa| + 2 \right)$ deformation-retracts under Yang-Mills flow onto the space of …