Instantons at Angles
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چکیده
We interpret a class of 4k-dimensional instanton solutions found by Ward, Corrigan, Goddard and Kent as four-dimensional instantons at angles. The super-position of each pair of four-dimensional instantons is associated with four angles which depend on some of the ADHM parameters. All these solutions are associated with the group Sp(k) and are examples of Hermitian-Einstein connections on E 4k. We show that the eight-dimensional solutions preserve 3/16 of the ten-dimensional N=1 supersymmetry. We argue that under the correspondence between the BPS states of Yang-Mills theory and those of M-theory that arises in the context of Matrix models, the instantons at angles configuration corresponds to the longitudinal intersecting 5-branes on a string at angles configuration of M-theory.
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