Lattice instantons in the large dimension limit

We give a lattice construction of the discretizations of the topologically nontrivial maps S ^2n–1S ⁿ . For n=1, 2, 4, 8, these are the Hopf maps. The construction, based on Barnes-Wall lattices, Reed-Muller error-correcting codes, and Hadamard matrices, generalizes to n=2 ⁱ for i any integer. Manton's result for the cases n=2 and 4 (i.e., the monopole and instanton) are included. We argue that discrete harmonic analysis will be exact in the infinite dimension limit.Work supported in part by the DOE contract #DE-ACO2-87ER-40325.B.Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator supported in part by DOE contract number DE-FGO5-85ER-40226.