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Spin(7)-instanton

Let $M$ be a Spin$(7)$-manifold with a spin-bundle $S=S_+\oplus S_-$. There's an obvious connection on $S$ which comes from lifting the Levi-Civita connection. And it induces a connection on the ...
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Spin connection vs. Cartan connection

I am studying the tetradic Palatini formalism of general relativity. In this formalism, one usually considers a manifold $M$, which is either non-compact or compact with Euler-characteristic $\chi(M)=...
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Different definitions of "charged spinors": "bundle splicing" vs. "twisted spinor bundles"

Currently I study the mathematical formulation of the (classical) standard model of particle physics using the language of gauge theory and spin geometry. One of the central objects in the standard ...
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Weitzenbock- Anti-selfdual

In "The Theory of Gauge Fields in Four Manifolds", B.Lawson proves the Bochner-Weitzenbock, for an anti-self-dual field $\Psi \in \Omega^2_-(\mathfrak{G}_E)$,where $\mathfrak{G}_E$ is the ...
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Infinitely many nonempty Seiberg-Witten moduli spaces

The classic "finiteness" statement in Seiberg-Witten (SW) theory is that, for any smooth closed connected 4-manifold, there are only finitely many spin-c structures with nontrivial SW ...
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$spin_{\mathbb{C}}$ Connection and Charge Parity

From the paper "Gapped Boundary Phases of Topological Insulators via Weak Coupling" on page 11, https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04251 the authors states that on a curved manifold with a $spin_{\mathbb{C}}...