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xxviii<strong>Applied</strong> <strong>Diff</strong>erential <strong>Geom</strong>etry: A Modern Introduction4.13.2.4 Hermitian Structure on the Spinors . . 6864.13.2.5 Symplectic Structure on the Spinors . . 6894.13.3 Penrose Twistor Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6914.13.3.1 Penrose Index Formalism . . . . . . . . 6914.13.3.2 Twistor Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6984.13.4 Application: Rovelli’s Loop Quantum Gravity . 7014.13.4.1 Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity 7014.13.4.2 Formalism of Loop Quantum Gravity . 7084.13.4.3 Loop Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7094.13.4.4 Loop Quantum Gravity . . . . . . . . . 7114.13.4.5 Loop States and Spin Network States . 7124.13.4.6 Diagrammatic Representation of theStates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7154.13.4.7 Quantum Operators . . . . . . . . . . . 7164.13.4.8 Loop v.s. Connection Representation . 7174.14 Application: Seiberg–Witten Monopole Field Theory . 7184.14.1 SUSY Formalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7214.14.1.1 N = 2 Supersymmetry . . . . . . . . . . 7214.14.1.2 N = 2 Super–Action . . . . . . . . . . . 7214.14.1.3 Spontaneous Symmetry–Breaking . . . 7234.14.1.4 Holomorphy and Duality . . . . . . . . 7244.14.1.5 The SW Prepotential . . . . . . . . . . 7244.14.2 Clifford Actions, Dirac Operators and SpinorBundles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7254.14.2.1 Clifford Algebras and Dirac Operators . 7274.14.2.2 Spin and Spin c Structures . . . . . . . 7294.14.2.3 Spinor Bundles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7304.14.2.4 The Gauge Group and Its Equations . . 7314.14.3 Original SW Low Energy Effective Field Action . 7324.14.4 QED With Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7354.14.5 QCD With Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7374.14.6 Duality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7384.14.6.1 Witten’s Formalism . . . . . . . . . . . 7404.14.7 Structure of the Moduli Space . . . . . . . . . . . 7464.14.7.1 Singularity at Infinity . . . . . . . . . . 7464.14.7.2 Singularities at Strong Coupling . . . . 7474.14.7.3 Effects of a Massless Monopole . . . . . 7484.14.7.4 The Third Singularity . . . . . . . . . . 749

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