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Non-Abelian Berry Phase, Instantons and N=(0,4) Supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-01-10 v1

Abstract

In supersymmetric quantum mechanics, the non-Abelian Berry phase is known to obey certain differential equations. Here we study N=(0,4) systems and show that the non-Abelian Berry connection over R^{4n} satisfies a generalization of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations. Upon dimensional reduction, these become the tt* equations. We further study the Berry connection in N=(4,4) theories and show that the curvature is covariantly constant.

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@article{arxiv.1003.4751,
  title  = {Non-Abelian Berry Phase, Instantons and N=(0,4) Supersymmetry},
  author = {João N. Laia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.4751},
  year   = {2011}
}

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11 pages