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Constructions of Non Commutative Instantons on $T^4$ and $K_3$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

We generalize the spectral-curve construction of moduli spaces of instantons on \MT4\MT{4} and K3K_3 to noncommutative geometry. We argue that the spectral-curves should be constructed inside a twisted \MT4\MT{4} or K3K_3 that is an elliptic fibration without a section. We demonstrate this explicitly for T4T^4 and to first order in the noncommutativity, for K3K_3. Physically, moduli spaces of noncommutative instantons appear as moduli spaces of theories with \SUSY4\SUSY{4} supersymmetry in 2+1D. The spectral curves are related to Seiberg-Witten curves of theories with \SUSY2\SUSY{2} in 3+1D. In particular, we argue that the moduli space of instantons of U(q)U(q) Yang-Mills theories on a noncommutative K3K_3 is equivalent to the Coulomb branch of certain 2+1D theories with N=4{\cal N} = 4 supersymmetry. The theories are obtained by compactifying the heterotic little-string theory on T3T^3 with global twists. This extends a previous result for noncommutative instantons on \MT4\MT{4}. We also briefly discuss the instanton equation on generic curved spaces.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0007236,
  title  = {Constructions of Non Commutative Instantons on $T^4$ and $K_3$},
  author = {Ori J. Ganor and Andrei Yu. Mikhailov and Natalia Saulina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0007236},
  year   = {2009}
}

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