Yang-Mills- and D-instantons
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
In these lectures, which are written at an elementary and pedagogical level, we discuss general aspects of (single) instantons in SU(N_c) Yang-Mills theory, and then specialize to the case of N = 4 supersymmetry and the large N_c limit. We show how to determine the measure of collective coordinates and compute instanton corrections to certain correlation functions. We then relate this to D-instantons in type IIB supergravity. By taking the D-instantons to live in an background, we perform explicit checks of the AdS/CFT correspondence.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0004186,
title = {Yang-Mills- and D-instantons},
author = {A. V. Belitsky and S. Vandoren and P. van Nieuwenhuizen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0004186},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
62 pages, typos corrected, table of contents and references added