Symmetry Reductions of the Lax Pair of the Four-Dimensional Euclidean Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations (Q4515946)

The author applies the method of reduction by symmetry to the Lax pair, or the linear system, of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations on four-dimensional Euclidean space. Two main aspects to be considered are, first, the extension of the Lax pair to the product of the Euclidean space and the space of the spectral parameter \((CP^1)\), and second, the lift of the group action of \(\text{SO}(5,1)\) to \(\mathbb{R}^4\times CP^1\subset CP^{3*} \) preserving the complex structures induced on \(E^4\) by the linear system \[ \begin{gathered} [D_1+iD_2-\lambda(D_3+iD_4)]\Psi(x,\lambda,\bar\lambda)=0,\\ \quad [D_3-iD_4+\lambda(D_1-iD_2)]\Psi(x,\lambda,\bar\lambda)=0,\\ \quad \partial_{\bar\lambda}\Psi(x,\lambda,\bar\lambda)=0, \end{gathered} \] where the covariant derivative: \( D_\mu:= \partial_\mu+A_\mu \) and~\( \lambda\in CP^1\).