A ring of instantons inducing a monopole loop.

DOI10.1016/S0003-4916(03)00137-4MaRDI QIDQ1415320zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Bruckmann, Doerte Hansen

Publication date 3 December 2003

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0305012

zbMATH Keywords

instantonsreducibilityYang-Mills theorymonopolesmagneticAbelian projection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We consider the superposition of infinitely many instantons on a circle in R^4. The construction yields a self-dual solution of the Yang-Mills equations with action density concentrated on the ring. We show that this configuration is reducible in which case magnetic charge can be defined in a gauge invariant way. Indeed, we find a unit charge monopole (worldline) on the ring. This is an analytic example of the correlation between monopoles and action/topological density, however with infinite action. We show that both the Maximal Abelian Gauge and the Laplacian Abelian Gauge detect the monopole, while the Polyakov gauge does not. We discuss the implications of this configuration.

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