Moduli spaces of contact instantons (Q266137)

The moduli spaces of self-dual and anti-self-dual contact instantons on compact \(K\)-manifolds are constructed. This construction is an analogue of Yang-Mills instantons for contact metric 5-dimensional manifolds. It is proved that if the contact manifold is Sasakian, then the moduli space of irreducible anti-self-dual contact instantons on this manifold carries a natural Kählerian structure. Furthermore, it is also proved that if the manifold has a transverse Calabi-Yau structure, then the moduli space carries a natural hyper-Kählerian structure.