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Yang-Mills fields on quaternionic spaces. (English) Zbl 0681.53037

The authors extend to bundles over quaternionic Kähler manifolds the by now classical notion of self-duality over 4-dimensional spaces. This condition has a twistor interpretation in terms of twistors over quaternionic Kähler manifolds, a notion of the second author and L. Bérard Bergery. Interesting examples of self-dual connections over projective quaternionic spaces are constructed using an extension of the monad construction of Atiyah-Hitchin-Manin-Drinfeld.
Reviewer: J.P.Bourguignon

MSC:

53C55 Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds
53C25 Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.)
53C05 Connections (general theory)
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