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The relation between defects of Abelian gauges and instantons is discussed for explicit examples in the Laplacian Abelian gauge. The defect coming from an instanton is pointlike and becomes a monopole loop with twist upon perturbation. The interplay between magnetic charge, twist and instanton number — encoded as a Hopf invariant — is investigated with the help of a new method, an auxiliary Abelian fibre bundle.
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Bruckmann, F. (2002). Monopoles From Instantons. In: Greensite, J., Olejník, Š. (eds) Confinement, Topology, and Other Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD. NATO Science Series, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0502-9_5
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