Duality for the general isomonodromy problem

By an extension of Harnad's and Dubrovin's 'duality' constructions, the general isomonodromy problem studied by Jimbo, Miwa, and Ueno is equivalent to one in which the linear system of differential equations has a regular singularity at the origin and an irregular singularity at infinity (both resonant). The paper looks at this dual formulation of the problem from two points of view: the symplectic geometry of spaces associated with the loop group of the general linear group, and a generalization of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved