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Yang-Mills Instantons in the Gravitational Instanton Backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The simplest and the most straightforward new algorithm for generating solutions to (anti) self-dual Yang-Mills (YM) equation in the typical gravitational instanton backgrounds is proposed. When applied to the Taub-NUT and the Eguchi-Hanson metrics, the two best-known gravitational instantons, the solutions turn out to be the rather exotic type of instanton configurations carrying finite YM action but generally fractional topological charge values.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0002151,
  title  = {Yang-Mills Instantons in the Gravitational Instanton Backgrounds},
  author = {Hongsu Kim and Yongsung Yoon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0002151},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14pages, Revtex, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B