Partial differential equations, Yang-Mills

One more important property of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations is that they are equivalent to the compatibility conditions of some overdetermined system of linear partial differential equations [11,12]. In other words, the selfdual Yang-Mills equations admit the Lax representation and, in this sense, are integrable. For this very reason it is possible to reduce Eq. (2) to the widely studied solitonic equations, such as the Euler-Amold, Burgers, and Devy-Stuardson equations [13,14] and Liouville and sine-Gordon equations [15] by use of the symmetry reduction method. 

The principal aim of the present chapter is twofold. First, we will review the already known ideas, methods, and results centered around the solution techniques that are based on the symmetry reduction method for the Yang-Mills equations (1) in Minkowski space. Second, we will describe the general reduction routine, developed by us in the 1990s, which enables the unified treatment of both the classical and nonclassical symmetry reduction approaches for an arbitrary relativistically invariant system of partial differential equations. As a byproduct, this approach yields exhaustive solution of the problem of... 

The present review is based mainly on our publications [33,35-39,49-53]. In Section II we give a detailed description of the general reduction routine for an arbitrary relativistically invariant systems of partial differential equations. The results of Section II are used in Section III to solve the problem of symmetry reduction of Yang-Mills equations (1) by subgroups of the Poincare group P 1,3) and to construct their exact (non-Abelian) solutions. In Section IV we review the techniques for nonclassical reductions of the STJ 2) Yang-Mills equations, which are based on their conditional symmetry. These techniques enable us to obtain the principally new classes of exact solutions of (1), which are not derivable within the framework of the standard symmetry reduction technique. In Section V we give an overview of the known invariant solutions of the Maxwell equations and construct multiparameter families of new ones. 

In this section we describe the general approach to constructing conformally invariant ansatzes applicable to any (linear or nonlinear) system of partial differential equations, on whose solution set a linear covariant representation of the conformal group 0(1,3) is realized. Since the majority of the equations of the relativistic physics, including the Klein-Gordon-Fock, Maxwell, massless Dirac, and Yang-Mills equations, respect this requirement, they can be handled within the framework of this approach. 

The classical Yang-Mills equations of SU(2) gauge theory in the Minkowski spacetime R1,3 form the system of nonlinear second-order partial differential equations of the form... 

Assertion 10. Ansatz (53),(54) reduces the Yang-Mills equations (46) to a system of ordinary differential equations, if and only if the functions m(x), 0 ( ) satisfy the following system of partial differential equations ... 

Consequently, to describe all the ansatzes of the form (53),(54) reducing the Yang-Mills equations to a system of ordinary differential equations, one has to construct the general solution of the overdetermined system of partial differential equations (54),(86). Let us emphasize that system (54),(86) is compatible since the ansatzes for the Yang-Mills field ( ) invariant under the three-parameter subgroups of the Poincare group satisfy equations (54),(86) with some specific choice of the functions F, F2, , 7Mv, [35]. 

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