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We determine the number of distinct homotopy types for the gauge groups of principal Sp(2)-bundles over a closed simply connected four-manifold.
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Published in Russian in Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, 2019, Vol. 305, pp. 309–329.
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So, T., Theriault, S. The Homotopy Types of Sp(2)-Gauge Groups over Closed Simply Connected Four-Manifolds. Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 305, 287–304 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0081543819030179
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