Morse index stability for Yang-Mills connections

Abstract

We prove stability results of the Morse index plus nullity of Yang-Mills connections in dimension 4 under weak convergence. Precisely we establish that the sum of the Morse indices and the nullity of a bounded sequence of Yang-Mills connections is asymptotically bounded above by the sum of the Morse index and the nullity of the weak limit and the bubbles while the Morse indices are asymptotically bounded below by the sum of the Morse index of the weak limit and the bubbles.