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Calorons and constituent monopoles

Differential Geometry 2023-08-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study anti-self-dual Yang-Mills instantons on R3×S1\mathbb{R}^{3}\times S^{1}, also known as calorons, and their behaviour under collapse of the circle factor. In this limit, we make explicit the decomposition of calorons in terms of constituent pieces which are essentially charge 11 monopoles. We give a gluing construction of calorons in terms of the constituents and use it to compute the dimension of the moduli space. The construction works uniformly for structure group an arbitrary compact semi-simple Lie group.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2207.08705,
  title  = {Calorons and constituent monopoles},
  author = {Lorenzo Foscolo and Calum Ross},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08705},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

26 pages, 2 figures, v2: minor revisions, Communications in Mathematical Physics accepted version

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