The Nahm transform for calorons
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In this paper, we complete the proof of an equivalence given by Nye and Singer of the equivalence between calorons (instantons on S × R) and solutions to Nahm’s equations over the circle, both satisfying appropriate boundary conditions. Many of the key ingredients are provided by a third way of encoding the same data which involves twistors and complex geometry.
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