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


Bilge A., Dereli T., Kocak S.

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, no.4, 2003 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

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.