Raymond and instantons: some recollections and the use of ADHM

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.07.021zbMATH Open1349.81182arXiv1611.01859OpenAlexW2493157836MaRDI QIDQ341858FDOQ341858

C. P. Korthals Altes

Publication date: 17 November 2016

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: After the discovery of the BRST identities in 1974 Raymond spent some two years mostly on instantons. In those years we had a small group at the Centre Physique Th'eorique in Marseille discussing the physics and mathematics of instantons. The upshot of our discussions can be found in a set of lectures given by Raymond in Erice in 1977 and a year later in a Physics Reports volume. I present some recollections of that period; mostly how we were influenced by the twistor approach. I discuss the Atiyah-Drinfeld-Hitchin-Manin (ADHM) method to obtain instantons ("calorons") in thermal QCD following earlier work. The building blocks are a prepotential and a gauge invariant propagator. Then I will give surprisingly simple results in terms of these building blocks for the one loop vacuum response to a change in caloron parameters and some physical consequences for the effective action, in particular screening properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01859

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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• Construction of instantons
• Instantons and algebraic geometry
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• Exact T-duality between calorons and Taub-NUT spaces
• Monopole determinant in Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature

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