The linear system for self-dual gauge fields in a spacetime of signature 0 (Q1184384)

The author examines the overdetermined linear system for the self-dual Yang-Mills equations (SDYM) in a flat four-dimensional space endowed with a metric of signature 0. To the three disjoint domains of the system do correspond three essentially different solutions of the linear system for a given gauge field. In the real analytic case two domains of the constructions overlap, and the two different solutions determine a non- singular holomorphic matrix-function in an ``annular'' region of the projective twistor space. Conversely, specializing to the gauge group \(U(n)\), any arbitrary \(GL(n,\mathbb{C})\)-valued holomorphic function defined in such a domain, factors uniquely in each unit disk to give a real analytic solution of the SDYM equations. Moreover, the procedure of mapping (by factorization) the group \(G\) of such functions onto the set of solutions of the linear system and hence onto the set of solutions of the SDYM equations, is described.