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Instantons and Special Geometry

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We survey and discuss constructions of instantons on non-compact complete manifolds of special holonomy from the viewpoint of evolution equations and give several explicit examples.

To Simon Salamon on the occasion of his 60th birthday

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Acknowledgements

JDL was partially supported by EPSRC grant EP/K010980/1. TBM gratefully acknowledges financial support from Villum Fonden.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Jason D. Lotay

  2. Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 118, Bldg 1530, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark

    Thomas Bruun Madsen

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  1. GMA - IME, Universidade Federal Fluminense GMA - IME, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Simon G. Chiossi

  2. Dipartimento di Mathematica "G. Peano", Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

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  3. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Firenze, Italy

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  4. Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

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  5. Dipart. di Matematica, Giuseppe Peano, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Luigi Vezzoni

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Lotay, J.D., Madsen, T.B. (2017). Instantons and Special Geometry. In: Chiossi, S., Fino, A., Musso, E., Podestà, F., Vezzoni, L. (eds) Special Metrics and Group Actions in Geometry. Springer INdAM Series, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67519-0_10

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