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Instantons, Fermions and Chern-Simons Terms.pdf

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Instantons, Fermions and Chern-Simons Terms

a r X i v : 0 8 0 4 .1 7 7 2 v 2 [ h e p - t h ] 1 9 M a y 2 0 0 8 Preprint typeset in JHEP style - PAPER VERSION Instantons, Fermions and Chern-Simons Terms Benjamin Collie and David Tong Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK b.p.collie, d.tong@damtp.cam.ac.uk Abstract: In five spacetime dimensions, instantons are finite energy, solitonic par- ticles. We describe the dynamics of these objects in the presence of a Chern-Simons interaction. For U(N) instantons, we show that the 5d Chern-Simons term induces a corresponding Chern-Simons term in the ADHM quantum mechanics. For SU(N) in- stantons, we provide a description in terms of geodesic motion on the instanton moduli space, modified by the presence of a magnetic field. We show that this magnetic field is equal to the first Chern character of an index bundle. All of these results are derived by a simple method which follows the fate of zero modes as fermions are introduced, made heavy, and subsequently integrated out. 1. Introduction In five spacetime dimensions, the self-dual instanton solutions of Yang-Mills theory are finite energy, solitonic particles. Their dynamics is described by quantum mechanics on the instanton moduli space M. The purpose of this paper is to explain how this dynamics is altered by the presence of a 5d Chern-Simons (CS) term. This topic has received some interest of late, motivated in part by an old observation of Atiyah and Manton which relates instantons to Skyrmions [1]. This idea has re- cently found a dynamical realization within the context of holographic QCD [2, 3]1. In this framework, a U(Nf ) Yang-Mills theory in a five-dimensional warped background reduces at low-energies to the Skyrme model with Nf flavours. The 5d theory includes CS interactions which play a key role in the story and, for Nf ≥ 3, give rise to the WZW term of the Skyrme model. Baryons in this model arise from instantons in 5d and have been studied in a numb

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