“…6 we derive the connection between the Ishimori systems, which correspond to = −1, and the Davey-Stewartson equations, starting from our modified spin systems. This connection is well-known; see, for example, [6,9,11], or [16], at least in the focusing case μ = 1. The analysis in this paper can then be combined with the global analysis of the defocusing Davey-Stewartson II equation (see [13][14][15]), to give global solutions of the defocusing Ishimori system in the case of large classical data, constant outside a compact set (see Theorem 6.1).…”