Yang-Mills instanton as a quantum black hole

Abstract

In terms of spin-charge separated variables, the Minkowski space Yang-Mills BPST instanton describes a locally conformally flat doubly-wrapped cigar manifold that can be viewed as a Euclidean quantum black hole. An ensemble of instantons then corresponds to a ``spacetime foam'' that creates a locally conformally flat spacetime from ``nothing'' as a quantum fluctuation.

11 pages, revised

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• Spin-Charge Separation, Conformal Covariance and the SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory
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• On Lorentz Invariance, Spin-Charge Separation And SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory