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Infinitely many conservation laws in self-dual Yang--Mills theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Using a nonlocal field transformation for the gauge field known as Cho--Faddeev--Niemi--Shabanov decomposition as well as ideas taken from generalized integrability, we derive a new family of infinitely many conserved currents in the self-dual sector of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory. These currents may be related to the area preserving diffeomorphisms on the reduced target space. The calculations are performed in a completely covariant manner and, therefore, can be applied to the self-dual equations in any space-time dimension with arbitrary signature.

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@article{arxiv.0804.4418,
  title  = {Infinitely many conservation laws in self-dual Yang--Mills theory},
  author = {C. Adam and J. Sanchez-Guillen and A. Wereszczynski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.4418},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

12 pages, extensively revised version. One section on previous results and some references added

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