Self-dual Yang--Mills fields in \(d=7, 8\), octonions and Ward equations (Q1194359)

Considering the Yang-Mills theory with an arbitrary semisimple gauge Lie group for \(d=7\) and \(d=8\), the authors determine new classes of explicit solutions for the Yang-Mills (YM) equations. Namely, the generalized self-duality equations in these cases are reduced to systems of nonlinear differential equations of functions of one variable (Ward equations) which, in the considered ansatz, may be obtained from the classical Yang- Baxter equations. The authors show that the simplest rational solutions of the last ones provide already known solutions of the YM equations; subsequently, they describe a method of obtaining new solutions of the YM equations for \(d=7\) and \(d=8\) from the trigonometric solutions of the Yang-Baxter equations.