Seiberg-Witten type monopole equations on 8-manifolds with Spin(7) holonomy as minimizers of a quadratic action

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Bilge A., Dereli T., Kocak S.

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, vol.7, no.4, pp.39-53, 2003 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 7 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2003
  • Doi Number: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/04/003
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.39-53
  • Keywords: differential and algebraic geometry, duality in gauge field theories, field theories in higher dimensions
  • Anadolu University Affiliated: No

Abstract

We obtain an elliptic system of monopole equations on 8-manifolds with Spin(7) holonomy by minimizing an action involving negative spinors coupled to an abelian gauge field.