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Calorons in Weyl Gauge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We demonstrate by explicit construction that while the untwisted Harrington-Shepard caloron AμA_\mu is manifestly periodic in Euclidean time, with period β=1T\beta=\frac{1}{T}, when transformed to the Weyl (A0=0A_0=0) gauge, the caloron gauge field AiA_i is periodic only up to a large gauge transformation, with winding number equal to the caloron's topological charge. This helps clarify the tunneling interpretation of these solutions, and their relation to Chern-Simons numbers and winding numbers.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011169,
  title  = {Calorons in Weyl Gauge},
  author = {Gerald V. Dunne and Bayram Tekin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011169},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, 10 figures, a sign typo in equation 27 is corrected

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