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Publications and source records attributed to Simon Brendle.
We study a higher-order parabolic equation which generalizes the Ricci flow on two-dimensional surfaces. The metric is deformed conformally with a speed given by the Q-curvature of the metric. Under a condition on the Q-curvature of the initial metric we show that the soluton exists for all time and converges to a metric of prescribed Q-curvature.
We establish a glueing theorem for the Ginzburg-Landau equations in dimension $n > 2$. To this end, we consider a nondegenerate minimal submanifold of codimension 2, and construct a one-parameter family of solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau equations such that the energy density concentrates near this submanifold. The proof is based on a construction of suitable approximate solutions and the implicite function theorem.
We describe a glueing construction for the Yang-Mills equations in dimension $n > 4$. Our method is based on a construction of approximate solutions, and a detailed analysis of the linearized operator near an approximate solution.
We describe a glueing construction for a certain self-dual reduction of the Yang-Mills equations in dimension 8.