A closed form for unitons

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/05030737zbMATH Open0943.58010arXivdg-ga/9512009OpenAlexW2593901952MaRDI QIDQ1277293FDOQ1277293

Authors: Christopher K. Anand 

Publication date: 5 September 2000

Published in: Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Unitons, i.e. harmonic spheres in a unitary group, correspond to lq uniton bundles q, i.e. holomorphic bundles over the compactified tangent space to the complex line with certain triviality and other properties. In this paper, we use a monad representation similar to Donaldson's representation of instanton bundles to obtain a simple formula for the unitons. Using the monads, we show that real triviality for uniton bundles is automatic. We interpret the uniton number as the `length' of a jumping line of the bundle, and identify the uniton bundles which correspond to based maps into Grassmannians. We also show that energy-$3$ unitons are $1$-unitons, and give some examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9512009

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zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapmonadunitonssigma modelchiral field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Sheaves and cohomology of sections of holomorphic vector bundles, general results (32L10)

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