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The ADHM construction or monad construction is the construction of all instantons using method of linear algebra by Michael Atiyah, Vladimir G. Drinfel'd, Nigel. J. Hitchin, Yuri I. Manin in their paper Construction of Instantons.

[edit] ADHM data

The ADHM construction uses the following data:

complex vector spaces V and W of dimension k and N,
k × k complex matrices B₁, B₂, a k × N complex matrix I and a N × k complex matrix J,
a real moment map $\mu_r = [B_1,B_1^\dagger]+[B_2,B_2^\dagger]+II^\dagger-J^\dagger J$ ,
a complex moment map $\displaystyle\mu_c = [B_1,B_2]+IJ$ .

Then ADHM construction claims that, given certain regularity conditions,

Given B₁, B₂, I, J such that $μ r = μ c = 0$ , an Anti-Self-Dual instanton in a SU(N) gauge theory with instanton number k can be constructed,
All Anti-Self-Dual instantons can be obtained in this way and are in one-to-one correspondence with solutions up to a U(k) rotation which acts on each B in the adjoint representation and on I and J via the fundamental and antifundamental representations
The metric on the moduli space of instantons is that inherited from the flat metric on B, I and J.

[edit] Generalizations

[edit] Noncommutative instantons

In a noncommutative gauge theory, the ADHM construction is identical but a parameter is added to the real moment map which is equal to the noncommutativity parameter of the spacetime times the identity matrix. In this case instantons exist even when the gauge group is U(1).

[edit] Vortices

Setting B₂ and J to zero, one obtains the classical moduli space of nonabelian vortices in a supersymmetric gauge theory with an equal number of colors and flavors, as was demonstrated in Vortices, instantons and branes. The generalization to greater numbers of flavors appeared in Solitons in the Higgs phase: The Moduli matrix approach. In both cases the Fayet-Iliopoulos term, which determines a squark condensate, plays the role of the noncommutativity parameter in the real moment map.

[edit] The construction formula

Let x be the 4-dimensional Euclidean spacetime coordinates written in quaternionic notation $x_{ij}=\begin{pmatrix}z_2&z_1\\-\bar{z_1}&\bar{z_2}\end{pmatrix}$ .

Consider the 2k × (N+2k) matrix

$\Delta= \begin{pmatrix}I&B_2+z_2&B_1+z_1\\J^\dagger&-B_1^\dagger-\bar{z_1}&B_2^\dagger+\bar{z_2}\end{pmatrix}$ .

Then the conditions $\displaystyle\mu_r=\mu_c=0$ are equivalent to the factorization condition

$\Delta\Delta^\dagger=\begin{pmatrix}f^{-1}&0\\0&f^{-1}\end{pmatrix}$ where f(x) is a k × k hermitian matrix.

Then a hermitian projection operator P can be constructed as

$P=\Delta^\dagger\begin{pmatrix}f&0\\0&f\end{pmatrix}\Delta$ .

The nullspace of Δ(x) is of N dimension for generic x. The basis vector for this null-space can be assembled into an (N+2k) × N matrix U(x) with orthonormalization condition U^†U=1.

A regularity condition on the rank of Δ guaranteed the completeness condition

$P+UU^\dagger=1$

The anti-selfdual connection is then constructed from U by the formula

$A_m=U^\dagger \partial_m U$ .

[edit] References

Construction of Instantons, Michael Atiyah, Vladimir G. Drinfel'd, Nigel. J. Hitchin, Yuri I. Manin, Phys. Lett. A65 (1978) 185-187
Instantons in Gauge Theory by M. Shifman.
On the Construction of Monopoles

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