The ADHM construction and non-local symmetries of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations (Q981715)

In the paper under review, the author studies the action on instanton moduli spaces of the non-local symmetries of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations on \(\mathbb R^4\), proved that a sub-algebra of the symmetry algebra generates the tangent space to the instanton moduli space at each point, and found the subgroup of the symmetry group that preserves the one-instanton moduli space. The main idea is to use the ADHM construction. In Section 2, the relevant background materials from both the integrable systems approach to the self-dual Yang-Mills equations and the ADHM approach to the instanton problem were reviewed. In Section 3, the ADHM construction were used to yield explicit patching matrices for holomorphic bundles over subsets of \({\mathbb C}\mathbb{P}^3\). In Sect.~4, it was showed that one-parameter families of ADHM data yield transformations which are significantly restricted in the sense that they are generated by flows on the full moduli space of self-dual connections. In Sect.~5, the author proved that the constructions can be carried out on the one-instanton moduli space, and that the only symmetries having a well-defined action on the one-instanton moduli space are scalings.