Zero modes and the Atiyah-Singer index in noncommutative instantons
Zero modes and the Atiyah-Singer index in noncommutative instantons
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非交换瞬子中的零模式和 Atiyah-Singer 指数
DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.66.025034
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发表时间:
2002
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5
通讯作者:
Hyun Seok Yang
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作者:
Keun;Bum;Hyun Seok Yang
We study the bosonic and fermionic zero modes in noncommutative instanton backgrounds based on the Atiyah-Drinfeld-Hitchin-Manin (ADHM) construction. In the k instanton background in $U(N)$ gauge theory, we show how to explicitly construct $4Nk$ $(2Nk)$ bosonic (fermionic) zero modes in the adjoint representation and $2k$ $(k)$ bosonic (fermionic) zero modes in the fundamental representation from the ADHM construction. The number of fermionic zero modes is also shown to be exactly equal to the Atiyah-Singer index of the Dirac operator in the noncommutative instanton background. We point out that (super)conformal zero modes in non-Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield instantons are affected by the noncommutativity. The role of Lorentz symmetry breaking by the noncommutativity is also briefly discussed to figure out the structure of $U(1)$ instantons.