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A family of metrics on the moduli space of CP2 instantons

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A family of Riemannian metrics on the moduli space of irreducible selfdual connections of instanton numberk=1 overCP 2 is considered. We find explicit formulas for these metrics and deduce conclusions concerning the geometry of the instanton space.

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    Lutz Habermann

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Communicated by N. Yu. Reshetikhin

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Habermann, L. A family of metrics on the moduli space of CP2 instantons. Commun.Math. Phys. 149, 209–216 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02096631

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