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This article is a survey of recent developments in the area described in the title. We will concentrate on the developments that have taken place since 1986, after the earlier survey [10] (which corresponds roughly to the material covered in the book [14]), and this article might be viewed as a continuation of [10]. Another useful reference which gives an overview of the field is [23].
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Donaldson, S.K. (1994). Gauge Theory and Four-Manifold Topology. In: Joseph, A., Mignot, F., Murat, F., Prum, B., Rentschler, R. (eds) First European Congress of Mathematics . Progress in Mathematics, vol 3. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9110-3_4
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