Octonionic Yang-Mills instanton on quaternionic line bundle of Spin(7) holonomy

Journal of Geometry and Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 302-320

  Kanno, Hiroaki ^a   Yasui, Yukinori ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

53C07; 53C25; 81C60; 81T13; Instanton; Quantum field theory; Special holonomy; Supersymmetric Yang Mills theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001628083     PISSN: 03930440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0393-0440(99)00073-X     Document Type: Article

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