Levy Laplacians and instantons on manifolds

Abstract

The equivalence of the anti-selfduality Yang-Mills equations on the 4-dimensional orientable Riemannian manifold and Laplace equations for some infinite dimensional Laplacians is proved. A class of modificated Levy Laplacians parameterized by the choice of a curve in the group $SO(4)$ is introduced. It is shown that a connection is an instanton (a solution of the anti-selfduality Yang-Mills equations) if and only if the parallel transport generalized by this connection is a solution of the Laplace equations for some three modificated Levy Laplacians from this class.

18 pages