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Symmetric calorons of higher charges and their large period limits

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-02-03 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Periodic instantons, also called calorons, are the BPS solutions to the pure Yang-Mills theories on R3×S1\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1. It is known that the calorons interconnect with the instantons and the BPS monopoles as the ratio of their size to the period of S1S^1 varies. We give, in this paper, the action density configurations of the SU(2)SU(2) calorons of higher instanton charges with several platonic symmetries through the numerical Nahm transform, after the construction of the analytic Nahm data. The calorons considered are 5-caloron with octahedral symmetry, 7-caloron with icosahedral symmetry, and 4-caloron interconnecting tetrahedral and octahedral symmetries. We also consider the large period, or the instanton, limits of the Nahm data, i.e., the ADHM limits, and observe the similar spatial distributions of the action densities with the calorons.

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@article{arxiv.2003.01414,
  title  = {Symmetric calorons of higher charges and their large period limits},
  author = {Takumi Kato and Atsushi Nakamula and Koki Takesue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.01414},
  year   = {2021}
}

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35 pages, 10 figures