Letters in Mathematical Physics

, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp 29–34 | Cite as

Self-dual Yang-Mills fields and Nahm's equations

  • T. A. Ivanova
  • A. D. Popov
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Abstract

For the gauge fields with values in arbitrary semisimple Lie algebra\(\mathfrak{G}\) we introduce the ansatzes which reduce the self-duality equations in the Euclidean spaceR4,0 to the well-known Nahm equations.

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81T13 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • T. A. Ivanova
    • 1
  • A. D. Popov
    • 1
  1. 1.Steklov Mathematical InstituteMoscowUSSR

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