Symmetric Calorons
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-10 v2 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Abstract
Calorons (periodic instantons) interpolate between monopoles and instantons, and their holonomy gives approximate Skyrmion configurations. We show that, for each caloron charge N \leq 4, there exists a one-parameter family of calorons which are symmetric under subgroups of the three-dimensional rotation group. In each family, the corresponding symmetric monopoles and symmetric instantons occur as limiting cases. Symmetric calorons therefore provide a connection between symmetric monopoles, symmetric instantons and Skyrmions.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0312180,
title = {Symmetric Calorons},
author = {R. S. Ward},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0312180},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, typos corrected