Reduction of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations I. Poincar� group (Q4940495)

The self-dual Yang-Mills equations \[ \vec F_{\mu \nu }=\tfrac i2\varepsilon _{\mu \nu \alpha \beta }\vec F^{\alpha \beta } \tag{1} \] are investigated. Here \(\vec F_{\mu \nu } =\partial ^{\mu }\vec A_{\nu }-\partial ^{\nu }\vec A_{\mu}+e\vec A_{\mu}\times \vec A_{\nu}\), \(\vec A_{\mu }\) is a vector-potential, \(\varepsilon _{\mu \nu \alpha \beta }\) is the antisymmetric fourth-order tensor, \(\mu ,\nu ,\alpha ,\beta =\overline{0,3},\;\partial _{\mu }=\partial /\partial x_{\mu }\). Rising and lowering of the tensor indices is carried out by means of metric tensor of the Minkowski space. The authors obtain a complete description of ansatzes for \(\vec A_{\mu }\) invariant under 3-parameter subgroups of the Poincaré group \(P(1,3)\). Using these, the reduction of (1) to systems of ordinary differential equations (ODE) is carried out. (It should be noted that in resulting ODE systems the overdot which means the differentiation with respect to an independent variable is omitted).