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SU(2) Calorons and Magnetic Monopoles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-08-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Mathematical Physics math.MP Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate the self-dual Yang-Mills gauge configurations on R3×S1R^3\times S^1 when the gauge symmetry SU(2) is broken to U(1) by the Wilson loop. We construct the explicit field configuration for a single instanton by the Nahm method and show that an instanton is composed of two self-dual monopoles of opposite magnetic charge. We normalize the moduli space metric of an instanton and study various limits of the field configuration and its moduli space metric.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9802108,
  title  = {SU(2) Calorons and Magnetic Monopoles},
  author = {Kimyeong Lee and Changhai Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9802108},
  year   = {2016}
}

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