Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society

Self-dual connections and the topology of smooth 4-manifolds

S. K. Donaldson

Article information

Source
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), Volume 8, Number 1 (1983), 81-83.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 4 July 2007

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183550021

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR682827

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0519.57012

Subjects
Primary: 57N13: Topology of $E^4$ , $4$-manifolds [See also 14Jxx, 32Jxx]
Secondary: 58G99

Citation

Donaldson, S. K. Self-dual connections and the topology of smooth 4-manifolds. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 8 (1983), no. 1, 81--83. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183550021

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