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Symmetric calorons of higher charges and their large period limits

Periodic instantons, also called calorons, are the BPS solutions to the pure Yang-Mills theories on $\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1$. It is known that the calorons interconnect with the instantons and the BPS monopoles as the ratio of their size to the period of $S^1$ varies. We give, in this paper, the action density configurations of the $SU(2)$ calorons of higher instanton charges with several platonic symmetries through the numerical Nahm transform, after the construction of the analytic Nahm data. The calorons considered are 5-caloron with octahedral symmetry, 7-caloron with icosahedral symmetry, and 4-caloron interconnecting tetrahedral and octahedral symmetries. We also consider the large period, or the instanton, limits of the Nahm data, i.e., the ADHM limits, and observe the similar spatial distributions of the action densities with the calorons.