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Domain Wall Equations, Hessian of Superpotential, and Bogomol'nyi Bounds
An important question concerning the classical solutions of the equations of
motion arising in quantum field theories at the BPS critical coupling is
whether all finite-energy solutions are necessarily BPS. In this paper we
present a study of this basic question in the context of the domain wall
equations whose potential is induced from a superpotential so that the ground
states are the critical points of the superpotential. We prove that the
definiteness of the Hessian of the superpotential suffices to ensure that all
finite-energy domain-wall solutions are BPS. We give several examples to show
that such a BPS property may fail such that non-BPS solutions exist when the
Hessian of the superpotential is indefinite.Comment: 25 page
Dilaton Mass Formulas in a Hairy Binary Black Hole Model
In this note an analytic integration is obtained for the differential
equation governing the scalar-field-dependent mass in a hairy binary black hole
model, in the context of the Einstein--Maxwell--dilation theory, which gives a
closed-form formula-level description of the mass function. We also identify a
particular solution which attracts all solutions of the mass-governing equation
exponentially rapidly in large-dilaton-field limit.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures, to appea
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