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The Information Metric on the moduli space of instantons with global symmetries

AUTHORS

E. Malek, J. Muguran, J. Shock

DATE PUBLISHED

30 Jul 2015

Abstract

In this note we revisit Hitchin’s prescription \cite{Hitchin} of the Fisher metric as a natural measure on the moduli space of instantons that encodes the space-time symmetries of a classical field theory. Motivated by the idea of the moduli space of supersymmetric instantons as an emergent space in the sense of the gauge/gravity duality, we extend the prescription to encode also global symmetries of the underlying theory. We exemplify our construction with the instanton solution of the N sigma model on 2.