Instantons in two and four dimensions

DOI10.1007/BF01212288MaRDI QIDQ1058220zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Atiyah

Publication date 1984

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01212288

zbMATH Keywords

instantonsYang-Mills instantonsYang-Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

Review text

The purpose of this paper is to strengthen the analogy concerning the instantons in pure Yang-Mills theory in 4-dimensions and in the \(CP_ n\)-models in 2-dimensions. Essentially the author shows (at least for G a classical group and probably for all G) that Yang-Mills instantons in 4D can be naturally identified with (i.e. have the same parameter space as) the instantons in 2D for the theory in which the complex projective n- space \(CP_ n\) is replaced by the infinite-dimensional manifold \(\Omega\) G of loops on the structure group G.

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