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We show that the Yang-Mills instantons can be described in terms of certain holomorphic bundles on the projective plane. The proof uses explicit matrix descriptions arising from monads and an analysis of the corresponding groups of symmetries.
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Donaldson, S.K. Instantons and geometric invariant theory. Commun.Math. Phys. 93, 453–460 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01212289
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