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Kac-Moody monopoles and periodic instantons

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It is shown that calorons, or periodic instantons are the same as monopoles with the loop group as their structure group. Their twistor correspondences and spectral data are defined. The spectral data is shown to determine the general caloron.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Yale University, Yale Station, Box 2155, 06520, New Haven, CT, USA

    H. Garland

  2. Department of Mathematics, R. S. Phys. S., The Australian National University, GPO Box 4, 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    M. K. Murray

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Communicated by A. Jaffe

Research supported in part by NSF grant DMS-8506130

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Garland, H., Murray, M.K. Kac-Moody monopoles and periodic instantons. Commun.Math. Phys. 120, 335–351 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01217968

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