nLab ADHM construction

Idea

A method for constructing Yang-Mills instanton solutions. (ADHM)

Related concepts

• Nahm transform

• Skyrmion

References

The original article is

• Michael Atiyah, Nigel Hitchin, Vladimir Drinfeld, Yuri Manin, Construction of instantons, Physics Letters A 65 3 (1978) 185-187 [doi:10.1016/0375-9601(78)90141-X]

Surveys:

• Bert Lindenhovius, Instantons and the ADHM construction, Amsterdam (2011) [pdf]

• Nick Dorey, Timothy J. Hollowood, Valentin V. Khoze, Michael P. Mattis, The Calculus of Many Instantons, Phys. Rept. 371 (2002) 231-459 [arXiv:hep-th/0206063, doi:10.1016/S0370-1573(02)00301-0]