YANG-MILLS INSTANTONS ON ALE GRAVITATIONAL INSTANTONS
YANG-MILLS INSTANTONS ON ALE GRAVITATIONAL INSTANTONS
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01444534
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发表时间:
1990-01-01
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
NAKAJIMA, H
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作者:
KRONHEIMER, PB;NAKAJIMA, H
The problem of constructing or describing the solutions of the self-dual or antiself-dual Yang-Mills equations on S 4 was addressed by Atiyah, Drinfeld, Hitchin, and Manin in [ADHM]. The so-called ADHM construction reduces the problem to the solution of a quadratic equation for certain finite-dimensional matrices, so translating the problem into" algebra". A similar construction is described for solutions on the manifold~--fi2 in [Bu], and from another point of view in [Ki]. In this paper we shall describe an" ADHM construction" which produces solutions on another family of manifolds, the" ALE gravitational instantons", which were studied in [Kr].Let us briefly summarize the classification theorem which results from the usual ADHM description. We shall work with connections on R 4 rather than $4: by Uhlenbeck's theorem on the removability of singularities, finite action solutions on R 4 extend to the compactification. Thus for our purposes, a Yang-Mills instanton will mean a finite-action anti-self-dual connection. The structure group will always be the unitary group. The ADHM construction produces an instanton