Four-dimensional Toda theories from self-dual Yang-Mills theory (Q687963)

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    Four-dimensional Toda theories from self-dual Yang-Mills theory
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 436794

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      Four-dimensional Toda theories from self-dual Yang-Mills theory (English)
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      20 December 1993
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      Pointing out that the action of the self-dual Yang-Mills theory is very similar in form to that of the Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten (WZNW) theory under a special kind of gauge, the author compares with the two- dimensional cases and investigates the reductions of self-dual Yang-Mills theory. This comparison suggests that all the reduction schemes can be realized in the four-dimensional case.
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      reductions
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      Toda field equation
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      Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten theory
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      self- dual Yang-Mills theory
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