Reducible connections and non-local symmetries of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations

DOI10.1007/S00220-010-1025-8zbMATH Open1192.53026arXiv0812.2147OpenAlexW2159401513MaRDI QIDQ981716FDOQ981716

James D. E. Grant

Publication date: 2 July 2010

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct the most general reducible connection that satisfies the self-dual Yang-Mills equations on a simply connected, open subset of flat $mathbb{R}^4$. We show how all such connections lie in the orbit of the flat connection on $mathbb{R}^4$ under the action of non-local symmetries of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations. Such connections fit naturally inside a larger class of solutions to the self-dual Yang-Mills equations that are analogous to harmonic maps of finite type.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2147

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacegauge transformationsinstanton solutionsnon-local symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07)

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