Twisted Self-duality
Abstract
We examine a generalisation of the usual self-duality equations for Yang-Mills theory when the colour space admits a non-trivial involution. This involution allows us to construct a non-trivial twist which may be combined with the Hodge star to form a twisted self-dual curvature. We will construct a simple example of twisted self-duality for gauge theory along with its explicit solutions and then dimensionally reduce from four dimensions to obtain families of non-trivial non-linear equations in lower dimensions. This twisted self-duality constraint will be shown to arise in E_7 exceptional field theory through a Scherk-Schwarz reduction and we will show how an Eguchi-Hanson gravitational instanton also obeys the twisted self-duality condition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2208.09891,
title = {Twisted Self-duality},
author = {David S. Berman and Tancredi Schettini Gherardini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.09891},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
27 pages, plain LaTeX, v2 minor typos corrected