Deformed Instantons

Abstract

In this talk, instantons are discussed in the presence of Lorentz violation. Conventional topological arguments are applied to classify the modified solutions to the Yang-Mills equations according to the topological charge. Explicit perturbations to the instantons are calculated in detail for the case of unit topological charge.

Comments: 6 pages, proceedings for CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, IN, 2004