Non-trivial flat connections on the 3-torus. I: G_ 2 and the orthogonal groups.

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/1999/05/001zbMATH Open1060.81553arXivhep-th/9901154OpenAlexW3100241752MaRDI QIDQ1588560FDOQ1588560

Authors: Arjan Keurentjes 

Publication date: 4 December 2000

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a construction of non-trivial vacua for Yang-Mills theories on the 3-torus. Although we consider theories with periodic boundary conditions, twisted boundary conditions play an essential auxiliary role in our construction. In this article we will limit ourselves to the simplest case, based on twist in SU(2) subgroups. These reproduce the recently constructed new vacua for SO(N) and G_2 theories on the 3-torus. We show how to embed the results in the other exceptional groups F_4 and E_{6,7,8} and how to compute the relevant unbroken subgroups. In a subsequent article we will generalise to SU(N > 2) subgroups. The number of vacua found this way exactly matches the number predicted by the calculation of the Witten index in the infinite volume.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9901154

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90)

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