Searching for integrability

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(92)90055-6MaRDI QIDQ1184392zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Edward Witten

Publication date 28 June 1992

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0393-0440(92)90055-6

zbMATH Keywords

integrable modelsYang-Mills

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Review text

The self-dual Yang-Mills equations in four dimensions are integrable via the twistor transform for any gauge group. Integrability of the proper Yang-Mills equations in four dimensions with a finite dimensional gauge group cannot reasonably be hoped for. The author supports the conjecture that the limit \(\lim_{N\to \infty}\text{SU}(N)\) would lead to integrability in a certain, not strongly defined sense. In particular, as it has been shown a long time ago by t'Hooft, QCD theory becomes for \(\lim_{N\to\infty}\text{SU}(N)\) tractable. Manin, generalizing the Atiyah-Drinfeld-Hitchin-Manin construction, obtained for \(N\geq 66\) nonvacuous results. A concrete approach to \(\lim_{N\to \infty}\text{SU}(N)\) has not yet been proposed by the author.

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Cited in

(9)

• Integrability and beyond
• Integrable (3 + 1)-dimensional system with an algebraic Lax pair
• On the Weyl-Wigner-Moyal description of \(\text{SU}(\infty)\) Nahm equations.
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