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 is manifestly periodic in Euclidean time, with period , when transformed to the Weyl () gauge, the caloron gauge field 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