non-abelian instanton
1Instanton — An instanton or pseudoparticle is a notion appearing in theoretical and mathematical physics. Mathematically, a Yang Mills instanton is a self dual or anti self dual connection in a principal bundle over a four dimensional Riemannian manifold… …
2BPST instanton — The BPST instanton is the instanton with winding number 1 found by Belavin, Polyakov, Schwartz and Tyupkin. It is a classical solution to the equations of motion in Euclidean space time (i.e. after Wick rotation), meaning it describes a… …
3QCD vacuum — The QCD vacuum is the vacuum state of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). It is an example of a non perturbative vacuum state, characterized by many non vanishing condensates such as the gluon condensate or the quark condensate. These condensates… …
4Gauge theory — For a generally accessible and less technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to gauge theory. In physics, a gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the Lagrangian is invariant under a continuous group of local transformations …
5Michael Atiyah — Sir Michael Atiyah Born 22 April 1929 (1929 04 22) (age 82) …
6Mikhail Shifman — Mikhail Arkadyevich (Misha) Shifman Born April 4, 1949(1949 04 04) Riga, Latvia Fields Theoretical High Energy Physics …
7Sakurai Prize — The J. J. Sakurai Prize is a prize in theoretical particle physics whose purpose is to recognize outstanding work.The prize is awarded by American Physical Society and is officially presented at the APS April meeting every year.The prize was… …
8Mirror symmetry (string theory) — In physics and mathematics, mirror symmetry is a relation that can exist between two Calabi Yau manifolds. It happens, usually for two such six dimensional manifolds, that the shapes may look very different geometrically, but nevertheless they… …
