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We present a new class of covariantly constant solutions of the Yang–Mills equations. These solutions correspond to the solution of the field equation for the spin connection of the general form.
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The author is grateful to N. G. Marchuk for fruitful discussions and participants of ICCA 11 Conference for useful comments. The author is grateful to anonymous reviewer for careful reading of the manuscript and helpful comments on how to improve the presentation.
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The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project No. 16-31-00347 mol_a.
This article is part of the Topical Collection on Proceedings ICCA 11, Ghent, 2017, edited by Hennie De Schepper, Fred Brackx, Joris van der Jeugt, Frank Sommen, and Hendrik De Bie.
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Shirokov, D. Covariantly Constant Solutions of the Yang–Mills Equations. Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras 28, 53 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00006-018-0868-5
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