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by Leung Wai-Man Raymond. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [1]-[3] (2nd gp.)). / Chapter CHAPTER 0 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- Einstein-Hermitian Vector Bundles / Chapter 1.1 --- Preliminaries on Einstein-Hermitian structures --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2 --- Conformal invariance --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3 --- A Chern number inequality --- p.9 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- Stable Vector Bundles / Chapter 2.1 --- Coherent analytic sheaves --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2 --- "Torsion-free, reflexive and normal coherent analytic sheaves" --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3 --- Determinant bundles --- p.22 / Chapter 2.4 --- Stable vector bundles --- p.27 / Chapter 2.5 --- Stability of Einstein-Hermitian vector bundles --- p.32 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- Existence of Einstein-Hermitian connection on stable vector bundle over a compact Riemann Surface --- p.34 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- Existence of Einstein-Hermitian metric on stable vector bundle over a projective algebraic manifold / Chapter 4.1 --- Solution of the evolution equation for finite time --- p.45 / Chapter 4.2 --- Convergence of solution for infinite time --- p.53 / APPENDIX / Chapter I. --- A vanishing theorem of Bochner type and its consequences --- p.67 / Chapter II. --- Uhlenbeck's results on connections with Lp bounds on curvature --- p.69 / REFERENCE

Chan, Kai Leung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-109). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 0 --- Introduction --- p.7 / Chapter I --- Background Scenery --- p.10 / Chapter 1 --- Seiberg-Witten Invariants --- p.11 / Chapter 1.1 --- Preliminaries --- p.11 / Chapter 1.2 --- Construction of Seiberg-Witten Invariants --- p.17 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Seiberg-Witten Equations and the Moduli Space --- p.17 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Seiberg-Witten Invariants --- p.19 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Remarks --- p.20 / Chapter 1.2.4 --- Seiberg-Witten Invariants for b+2= 1 --- p.22 / Chapter 1.3 --- Important Results of Seiberg-Witten Invariants --- p.23 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- Manifolds Admit Positive Scalar Metrics --- p.23 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- Connected Sums --- p.25 / Chapter 1.3.3 --- Kahler Surfaces --- p.27 / Chapter 1.3.4 --- Symplectic Manifolds --- p.30 / Chapter 2 --- Intersection Forms --- p.32 / Chapter 2.1 --- Intersection Forms of 4-manifolds --- p.32 / Chapter 2.2 --- Classification Theorem --- p.34 / Chapter 2.3 --- Review: Van Kampen's Theorem --- p.35 / Chapter 3 --- Kirby Calculus --- p.37 / Chapter 3.1 --- Review on Handle Decompositions --- p.37 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Constructions --- p.38 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Handle Slides and Cancellations --- p.42 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Calculation of Homology Groups --- p.44 / Chapter 3.2 --- Kirby Diagrams --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Constructions --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Handle Slides and Cancellations --- p.50 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Dotted Notation for 1-handles --- p.56 / Chapter 3.3 --- 3-Manifolcis: As Boundaries of 4-Manifolds --- p.60 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Introduction --- p.60 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Lens spaces --- p.62 / Chapter 3.4 --- Linear Plumbing --- p.63 / Chapter 3.5 --- Rational Blowdown --- p.65 / Chapter II --- Examples of Exotic Structures --- p.71 / Chapter 4 --- mCP2#kCP2 --- p.72 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.72 / Chapter 4.2 --- Example: CP2#7CP2 --- p.73 / Chapter 4.3 --- Progress of Researches --- p.85 / Chapter 5 --- Gluing Results in Seiberg-Witten Theory --- p.89 / Chapter 5.1 --- Revisit of Seiberg-Witten Invariants --- p.89 / Chapter 5.2 --- Fiber Sums and its Generalization --- p.91 / Chapter 5.3 --- Logarithmic transformations and its Generalization --- p.93 / Chapter 5.4 --- Knot Theory and Alexander Polynomials --- p.96 / Chapter 5.5 --- Main Theorem --- p.102 / Bibliography --- p.106

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

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Two special classes of solutions to the Yang-Mills equations are studied in this thesis; Hermitian-Einstein connections on holomorphic bundles over Kahler manifolds, and self-dual connections on bundles over Riemannian 4-manifolds. We give a new proof of a theorem of Narasimhan and Seshadri, which characterizes those holomorphic bundles over an algebraic curve admitting projectively flat connections, and describe a conjecture of Hitchin and Kobayashi that would extend this to Hermitian-Einstein connections over any smooth projective variety. This conjecture is proved to be true for the simplest interesting case: bundles of rank 2 over ℙ². Moduli spaces of self-dual connections are studied from the point of view of differential topology, For bundles of Chern class -1 over a simply connected 4-manifold this moduli space can be compactified in a straightforward way and is, in a generic sense, an orientable manifold with quotient singularities. Applying the theory of cobordism to this moduli space we deduce that there are severe constraints on the matrices which can be realised by the intersection pairing on the second homology group of a smooth 4-manifold.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University (Canada), 1995. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-10, Section: B, page: 6295. Adviser: I. Hambleton.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.