The usual action of Yang-Mills theory is given by the quadratic form of curvatures of a principal G bundle defined on four dimensional manifolds. The non-linear generalization which is known as the Born-Infeld action has been given. * E-mail address : fujii@yokohama-cu.ac.jp † E-mail address : oike@tea.ocn.ne.jp ‡ E-mail address : suzukita@gm.math.waseda.ac.jp
1In this paper we give another non-linear generalization on four dimensional manifolds and call it a universal Yang-Mills action.The advantage of our model is that the action splits automatically into two parts consisting of self-dual and anti-self-dual directions. Namely, we have automatically the self-dual and anti-self-dual equations without solving the equations of motion as in a usual case.Our method may be applicable to recent non-commutative Yang-Mills theories studied widely.