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Instantons and Magnetic Monopoles on R³times S¹ with Arbitrary Simple Gauge Groups

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arxiv hep-th/9802012 v1 pith:TJZJUPRB submitted 1998-02-03 hep-th hep-lathep-phnucl-th

Instantons and Magnetic Monopoles on R³times S¹ with Arbitrary Simple Gauge Groups

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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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