Monads and D-instantons.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - t h / 9 6 1 2 0 9 6 v 1 9 D e c 1 9 9 6 ITFA-96-50, hep-th/9612096 Monads and D-instantons Jae-Suk Park ? Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica Universiteit van Amsterdam Valckenierstraat 65, 1018 XE Amsterdam Motivated by twisted N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 4 dimensions, a nat- ural extension of the monad (ADHM) construction relevant to D-instantons is considered. We show that a family of Yang-Mills instantons can be constructed from D-instantons. We discuss some possible roles of reciprocity in D-brane physics. We conjecture the existence of universal instantons together with a generalized Fourier-Nahm transformation as an unifying framework of D-brane physics. November, 1996 ? e-mail: park@phys.uva.nl 1. Introduction Shortly after the discovery of the Yang-Mills instantons [1], Atiyah, Dringfeld, Hitchin and Manin (ADHM) found of a way of constructing, in principle, all instantons for any classical group [2]. The ADHM construction relates the moduli space of anti-self-dual connections on R4 to the space of monads via the Ward correspondence [3]. Subsequently, Donaldson reformulated the ADHM construction in the language holomorphic vector bun- dle on CP2 [4]. The ADHM construction can be generalized to the Fourier-Nahm-Mukai transformation [5][6]. For any sub group H of the group of isometries of R4, this trans- formation gives an isometry between the moduli space of H-invariant instantons on R4 and the moduli space of H?-invariant instantons on R?4 [5][7][8][9]. This isometry and its miraculous properties, originally pointed out by Corrigan and Goddard, is called the reciprocity [10]. In the recent developments of string theory D-branes play crucial roles [11][12]. The low energy theory on the D p-branes world volume is the dimensional reduction of d = 10 N = 1 super-Yang-Mills theory down to p+1 dimensions [13][14]. The type IIB string has p = ?1 D-branes or D-instantons whose low energy description has an intriguing similarit