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Platonic instantons

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Abstract

The construction of Yang-Mills instantons with the symmetries of the platonic solids is described within the ADHM construction. As an example, the ADHM data is presented for an icosahedrally symmetric charge seventeen instanton with the structure of the truncated icosahedron.

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    Paul Sutcliffe

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Sutcliffe, P. Platonic instantons. Czech J Phys 55, 1515–1520 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10582-006-0034-5

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