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Monopoles on asymptotically Euclidean 3-manifolds. (English) Zbl 0669.53022

The author describes a generalization of Yang-Mills-Higgs theory on Euclidean \({\mathbb{R}}^ 3\) to connected sums of \({\mathbb{R}}^ 3\) with compact closed 3-manifolds. Details are to appear elsewhere.

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53C05 Connections (general theory)
57M99 General low-dimensional topology
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