Deformations of instantons.
A study is made of the self-dual Yang-Mills fields in Euclidean 4-space. For SU(2) gauge theory it is rigorously shown that the solutions depend on 8k - 3 parameters, where k is the Pontrijagin index.
Atiyah
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Mathematical Institute, Oxford, OX1 3LB, England.
Hitchin
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Singer
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