Contour potential for an anti-self-dual Maxwell field

ID: contour-potential-for-an-anti-self-dual-maxwell-field

The Abelian Ward splitting by Laurent series gives this gauge potential through the Cauchy integral formula, with evaluated on the twistor line. The integrand has total projective degree zero. Holding the contour fixed locally and differentiating gives , using . Its unprimed two-component spinor is symmetric, so the primed gauge curvature vanishes and the field obeys the anti-self-dual Maxwell equations. These signs use , and raising by left multiplication; other consistent raising conventions can reverse both displayed overall signs.

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