Semiclassical functional integrals for self-dual gauge fields

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(81)90159-7zbMath0479.58022OpenAlexW2094759011MaRDI QIDQ1162040

Howard Osborn

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(81)90159-7

zbMATH Keywords

ADHM formalismHJNR parametrizationlimit from a compact space to flat spacemulti-instantons functional determinantnormalisation matrixsemi-classical approximation to the functional integral for Euclidean gauge theories on a compact four-dimensional manifoldzero modes corresponding to global gauge transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

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Cites Work

• Construction of instanton and monopole solutions and reciprocity
• The operators governing quantum fluctuations of Yang-Mills multi- instantons on \(S^ 4\) and thier Seeley coefficients
• Instantons and fermions in the field of instanton
• A description of instantons
• Removable singularities in Yang-Mills fields
• Computation of quantum fluctuations around multi-instanton fields from exact Green's functions: the \(\mathbb{CP}^{n-1}\) case.

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