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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 205-218 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Nuclear Physics B |
| Volume | 882 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - May 2014 |
Abstract
Recently, conformal field theories in six dimensions were discussed from the twistorial point of view. In particular, it was demonstrated that the twistor transform between chiral zero-rest-mass fields and cohomology classes on twistor space can be generalized from four to six dimensions. On the other hand, the possibility of generalizing the correspondence between instanton gauge fields and holomorphic bundles over twistor space is questionable. It was shown by Sämann and Wolf that holomorphic line bundles over the canonical twistor space Tw(X) (defined as a bundle of almost complex structures over the six-dimensional manifold X) correspond to pure-gauge Maxwell potentials, i.e. the twistor transform fails. On the example of X=CP3 we show that there exists a twistor correspondence between Abelian or non-Abelian Yang-Mills instantons on CP3 and holomorphic bundles over complex submanifolds of Tw(CP3), but it is not so efficient as in the four-dimensional case because the twistor transform does not parametrize instantons by unconstrained holomorphic data as it does in four dimensions.
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- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Instantons in six dimensions and twistors
AU - Ivanova, Tatiana A.
AU - Lechtenfeld, Olaf
AU - Popov, Alexander D.
AU - Tormählen, Maike
N1 - Funding Information: This work was partially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant LE 838/13 and the Heisenberg–Landau program. Copyright: Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - Recently, conformal field theories in six dimensions were discussed from the twistorial point of view. In particular, it was demonstrated that the twistor transform between chiral zero-rest-mass fields and cohomology classes on twistor space can be generalized from four to six dimensions. On the other hand, the possibility of generalizing the correspondence between instanton gauge fields and holomorphic bundles over twistor space is questionable. It was shown by Sämann and Wolf that holomorphic line bundles over the canonical twistor space Tw(X) (defined as a bundle of almost complex structures over the six-dimensional manifold X) correspond to pure-gauge Maxwell potentials, i.e. the twistor transform fails. On the example of X=CP3 we show that there exists a twistor correspondence between Abelian or non-Abelian Yang-Mills instantons on CP3 and holomorphic bundles over complex submanifolds of Tw(CP3), but it is not so efficient as in the four-dimensional case because the twistor transform does not parametrize instantons by unconstrained holomorphic data as it does in four dimensions.
AB - Recently, conformal field theories in six dimensions were discussed from the twistorial point of view. In particular, it was demonstrated that the twistor transform between chiral zero-rest-mass fields and cohomology classes on twistor space can be generalized from four to six dimensions. On the other hand, the possibility of generalizing the correspondence between instanton gauge fields and holomorphic bundles over twistor space is questionable. It was shown by Sämann and Wolf that holomorphic line bundles over the canonical twistor space Tw(X) (defined as a bundle of almost complex structures over the six-dimensional manifold X) correspond to pure-gauge Maxwell potentials, i.e. the twistor transform fails. On the example of X=CP3 we show that there exists a twistor correspondence between Abelian or non-Abelian Yang-Mills instantons on CP3 and holomorphic bundles over complex submanifolds of Tw(CP3), but it is not so efficient as in the four-dimensional case because the twistor transform does not parametrize instantons by unconstrained holomorphic data as it does in four dimensions.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.02.023
DO - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.02.023
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SP - 205
EP - 218
JO - Nuclear Physics B
JF - Nuclear Physics B
SN - 0550-3213
IS - 1
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