ADHM Revisited: Instantons and Wilson Lines
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-23 v3
Abstract
We revisit the well-studied D0-D4 system of D-branes and its relationship to the ADHM construction. It is well known that the D0-branes appear as instantons in the D4-brane worldvolume. We add a Wilson line to the D4-brane in the guise of an extended fundamental string and determine how this affects the D0-brane dynamics. As the D0-brane moves in the presence of the Wilson line, it experiences a Lorentz force, proportional to its Yang-Mills gauge connection. From the perspective of the D0-brane quantum mechanics, this force emerges through the ADHM construction of the self-dual gauge connection.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1410.8523,
title = {ADHM Revisited: Instantons and Wilson Lines},
author = {David Tong and Kenny Wong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.8523},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
15 pages, 1 figure. Published in PRD under the title "Instantons, Wilson lines, and D-branes"