Instantons and Magnetic Monopoles on $R^3\times S^1$ with Arbitrary Simple Gauge Groups
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- 3 February 1998
Abstract
We investigate Yang-Mills theories with arbitrary gauge group on $R^3\times S^1$, whose symmetry is spontaneously broken by the Wilson loop. We show that instantons are made of fundamental magnetic monopoles, each of which has a corresponding root in the extended Dynkin diagram. The number of constituent magnetic monopoles for a single instanton is the dual Coxeter number of the gauge group, which also accounts for the number of instanton zero modes. In addition, we show that there exists a novel type of the $S^1$ coordinate dependent magnetic monopole solutions in $G_2,F_4,E_8$.
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- Version 1, 1998-02-03, ArXiv
- Published version: Physics Letters B, 426 (3-4), 323.
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