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Fermionic determinant for dyons and instantons with nontrivial holonomy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We calculate exactly the functional determinant for fermions in fundamental representation of SU(2) in the background of periodic instanton with non-trivial value of the Polyakov line at spatial infinity. The determinant depends on the value of the holonomy v, the temperature, and the parameter r_12, which at large values can be treated as separation between the Bogomolny--Prasad--Sommerfeld monopoles (or dyons) which constitute the periodic instanton. We find a compact expression for small and large r_12 and compute the determinant numerically for arbitrary r_12 and v.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0504024,
  title  = {Fermionic determinant for dyons and instantons with nontrivial holonomy},
  author = {Nikolay Gromov and Sergey Slizovskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0504024},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, published version, references added

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