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Minimum action solutions for SU(2) Yang-Mills fields in Euclidean 4-space correspond, via the Penrose twistor transform, to algebraic bundles on the complex projective 3-space. These bundles in turn correspond to algebraic curves. The implication of these results for the Yang-Mills fields is described. In particular all solutions are rational and can be constructed from a series of AnsätzeA l forl≧1.
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Atiyah, M.F., Ward, R.S. Instantons and algebraic geometry. Commun.Math. Phys. 55, 117–124 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01626514
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01626514