1: Four-manifolds
2: Connections
3: The Fourier transform and ADHM construction
4: Yang-Mills moduli spaces
5: Topology and connections
6: Stable holomorphic bundles over Kähler surfaces
7: Excision and glueing
8: Non-existence results
9: Invariants of smooth four-manifolds
10: The differential topology of algebraic surfaces
Appendix
References
Index
Professor S. K. Donaldson, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24-29 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LB. Professor P. B. Kronheimer, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2901, USA. Professor Donaldson won the Fields Medal for his work in the area of four-manifolds.
`... authoritative and comprehensive... it must be regarded as compulsory reading for any young researcher approaching this difficult but fascinating area.' Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
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