The geometry of self-dual two-forms

DOI10.1063/1.532125MaRDI QIDQ4370781zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ayşe Hümeyra Bilge, Tekin Dereli, Şahin Koçak

Publication date 11 July 2000

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9605060

zbMATH Keywords

Clifford algebrasoctonionic instantonsYang-Mills equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: We show that self-dual 2-forms in 2n dimensional spaces determine a $n^2-n+1$ dimensional manifold ${calS}_{2n}$ and the dimension of the maximal linear subspaces of ${calS}_{2n}$ is equal to the (Radon-Hurwitz) number of linearly independent vector fields on the sphere $S^{2n-1}$. We provide a direct proof that for $n$ odd ${calS}_{2n}$ has only one-dimensional linear submanifolds. We exhibit $2^c-1$ dimensional subspaces in dimensions which are multiples of $2^c$, for $c=1,2,3$. In particular, we demonstrate that the seven dimensional linear subspaces of ${calS}_8$ also include among many other interesting classes of self-dual 2-forms, the self-dual 2-forms of Corrigan, Devchand, Fairlie and Nuyts and a representation of $calC{l}_7$ given by octonionic multiplication. We discuss the relation of the linear subspaces with the representations of Clifford algebras.

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