Rigid string instantons are pseudo-holomorphic curves.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - t h / 9 6 0 9 1 9 6 v 1 2 4 S e p 1 9 9 6 UW-IFT-19/96 August, 1996 hep-th/9609196 Rigid string instantons are pseudo-holomorphic curves? Jacek Pawe lczyk Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, Hoz?a 69, PL-00-681 Warsaw, Poland. Abstract We show how to find explicit expressions for rigid string instantons for general 4-manifold M . It appears that they are pseudo-holomorphic curves in the twistor space of M . We present explicit formulae for M = R4, S4. We discuss their properties and speculate on relations to topology of 4-manifolds and the theory of Yang-Mills fields. ?Work supported in part by Polish State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) and EC under the contract ERBCIP-DCT94-0034. 0 Introduction Instantons plays an important role in modern field theory and mathematics. Till now the thorough studies of instantons were carried for gauge fields and sigma models. Rigid string is another model of interest which was known to posses instantons. The model was originally considered as a string for gauge fields. Unfortunately, rigidity has quite complicated structure when expressed in ordinary string variables. This prevents any significant progress in quantization. Certain rigid string instantons were derived and investigated in [1, 2]. Despite this efforts little was known about the generality of the proposed instanton equations and its significance for physics of the model. In recent paper [3] we derived a new set of instanton equations for the 4d rigid string. It was claimed this set is rich enough to have representatives for all topological sectors of the rigid string. Because the action of the model contains terms with four derivative the relevant topological invariant is not only the genus of the world-sheet surface but also the self-intersection number of the surface immersed in a target 4d space-time. The instantons split not into two families - instantons and anti-instantons but into three families. We shall call t