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A Nahm transform for rotating calorons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-01 v1 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

Rotating calorons were introduced in the context of rotating quark-gluon plasmas. They are anti-self-dual gauge fields on R4\mathbb{R}^4 that are invariant under a glide rotation. We formulate a Nahm transform which identifies rotating calorons with solutions of a delayed-differential equation. Using this transform, we prove existence of an eight-parameter family of charge 1 rotating calorons with nontrivial holonomy and rotational angle π\pi, which we construct and visualise using a numerical implementation of the Nahm transform.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2604.27184,
  title  = {A Nahm transform for rotating calorons},
  author = {Josh Cork and Derek Harland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.27184},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

35 pages, 32 figures

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