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Instantons in curvilinear coordinates

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

The multi-instanton solutions by 'tHooft and Jackiw, Nohl & Rebbi are generalized to curvilinear coordinates. Expressions can be notably simplified by the appropriate gauge transformation. This generates the compensating addition to the gauge potential of pseudoparticles. Singularities of the compensating connection are irrelevant for physics but affect gauge dependent quantities.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9910234,
  title  = {Instantons in curvilinear coordinates},
  author = {Alexei A. Abrikosov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9910234},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Talk given at the QCD-99 conference, June 1999, Montpellier, France. Primitive LaTeX, 7 pp