Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1997-02-13
Phys.Rev. D56 (1997) 3711-3717
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
LaTex, 18pages, no figure
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.56.3711
Motivated by the recent D-brane constructions of world-volume monopoles and instantons, we study the supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory on $S^1 \times R^{3+1}$, spontaneously broken by a Wilson loop. In addition to the usual N-1 fundamental monopoles, the N-th BPS monopole appears from the Kaluza-Klein sector. When all N monopoles are present, net magnetic charge vanishes and the solution can be reinterpreted as a Wilson-loop instanton of unit Pontryagin number. The instanton/multi-monopole moduli space is explicitly constructed, and seen to be identical to a Coulomb phase moduli space of a U(1)^N gauge theory in 2+1 dimensions related to Kronheimer's gauge theory of SU(N) type. This extends the results by Intriligator and Seiberg to the finite couplings that, in the infrared limit of Kronheimer's theory, the Coulomb phase parameterizes a centered SU(N) instanton. We also elaborate on the case of restored SU(N) symmetry.
Lee Kimyeong
Yi Piljin
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