1998/02/03 by Kimyeong Lee · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-lat #hep-ph #hep-th #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(98)00283-4
published as Phys.Lett. B426 (1998) 323-328 · 11 pages, LaTex file, no figure
arxiv created 1998/02/03 · openalex publication_date 1998/05/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
We investigate Yang-Mills theories with arbitrary gauge group on R3×S1, 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 S1 coordinate dependent magnetic monopole solutions in G2,F4,E8.