From vortices to instantons on the Euclidean Schwarzschild manifold

DOI10.4310/CAG.2022.V30.N2.A4arXiv1710.11535MaRDI QIDQ6293304FDOQ6293304

Authors: Ákos Nagy, Goncalo Oliveira 

Publication date: 31 October 2017

Abstract: The first irreducible solution of the $mathrmSU(2)$ self-duality equations on the Euclidean Schwarzschild (ES) manifold was found by Charap and Duff in 1977, only 2 years later than the famous BPST instantons on $mathbb{R}^4$ were discovered. While soon after, in 1978, the ADHM construction gave a complete description of the moduli spaces of instantons on $mathbb{R}^4$, the case of the Euclidean Schwarzschild manifold has resisted many efforts for the past 40 years. By exploring a correspondence between the planar Abelian vortices and spherically symmetric instantons on ES, we obtain: a complete description of a connected component of the moduli space of unit energy $mathrmSU(2)$ instantons; new examples of instantons with non-integer energy (and non-trivial holonomy at infinity); a complete classification of finite energy, spherically symmetric, $mathrmSU(2)$ instantons. As opposed to the previously known solutions, the generic instanton coming from our construction is not invariant under the full isometry group, in particular not static. Hence disproving a conjecture of Tekin.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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