Delocalized spinors

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/37/4/024MaRDI QIDQ4460977zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. S. Manton, A. F. Schunck

Publication date 29 March 2004

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0307246

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: Solutions to the four-dimensional Euclidean Weyl equation in the background of a general JNR N-instanton are known to be normalisable and regular throughout four-space. We show that these solutions are asymptotically given by a linear combination of simple singular solutions to the free Weyl equation, which can be interpreted as localised spinors. The `spinorial' data parameterising the asymptotics of the delocalised solutions to the Weyl equation in the presence of the instanton almost determines the background instanton, yet not completely. However, it captures the geometry and symmetry of the underlying instanton configuration.

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