198 research outputs found
Kleinian Geometry and the N=2 Superstring
This paper is devoted to the exploration of some of the geometrical issues
raised by the superstring. We begin by reviewing the reasons that
-functions for the superstring require it to live in a
four-dimensional self-dual spacetime of signature , together with some
of the arguments as to why the only degree of freedom in the theory is that
described by the gravitational field. We then move on to describe at length the
geometry of flat space, and how a real version of twistor theory is relevant to
it. We then describe some of the more complicated spacetimes that satisfy the
-function equations. Finally we speculate on the deeper significance of
some of these spacetimes.Comment: 30 pages, AMS-Te
Magnetic bubble refraction and quasibreathers in inhomogeneous antiferromagnets
The dynamics of magnetic bubble solitons in a two-dimensional isotropic
antiferromagnetic spin lattice is studied, in the case where the exchange
integral J(x,y) is position dependent. In the near continuum regime, this
system is described by the relativistic O(3) sigma model on a spacetime with a
spatially inhomogeneous metric, determined by J. The geodesic approximation is
used to describe low energy soliton dynamics in this system: n-soliton motion
is approximated by geodesic motion in the moduli space of static n-solitons,
equipped with the L^2 metric. Explicit formulae for this metric for various
natural choices of J(x,y) are obtained. From these it is shown that single
soliton trajectories experience refraction, with 1/J analogous to the
refractive index, and that this refraction effect allows the construction of
simple bubble lenses and bubble guides. The case where J has a disk
inhomogeneity (taking the value J_1 outside a disk, and J_2<J_1 inside) is
considered in detail. It is argued that, for sufficiently large J_1/J_2 this
type of antiferromagnet supports approximate quasibreathers: two or more
coincident bubbles confined within the disk which spin internally while their
shape undergoes periodic oscillations with a generically incommensurate period.Comment: Conference proceedings paper for talk given at Nonlinear Physics
Theory and Experiment IV, Gallipoli, Italy, June 200
The geodesic approximation for lump dynamics and coercivity of the Hessian for harmonic maps
The most fruitful approach to studying low energy soliton dynamics in field
theories of Bogomol'nyi type is the geodesic approximation of Manton. In the
case of vortices and monopoles, Stuart has obtained rigorous estimates of the
errors in this approximation, and hence proved that it is valid in the low
speed regime. His method employs energy estimates which rely on a key
coercivity property of the Hessian of the energy functional of the theory under
consideration. In this paper we prove an analogous coercivity property for the
Hessian of the energy functional of a general sigma model with compact K\"ahler
domain and target. We go on to prove a continuity property for our result, and
show that, for the CP^1 model on S^2, the Hessian fails to be globally coercive
in the degree 1 sector. We present numerical evidence which suggests that the
Hessian is globally coercive in a certain equivariance class of the degree n
sector for n>1. We also prove that, within the geodesic approximation, a single
CP^1 lump moving on S^2 does not generically travel on a great circle.Comment: 29 pages, 1 figure; typos corrected, references added, expanded
discussion of the main function spac
Radiation from Excited Vortex in the Abelian Higgs Model
Excitation of a vortex in the Abelian Higgs model is investigated with the
help of a polynomial approximation. The excitation can be regarded as a
longitudinal component of the vector field trapped by the vortex. The energy
and profile of the excitation are found. Back-reaction of the excitation on the
vortex is calculated in the small limit. It turns out that in the
presence of the excitation the vortex effectively becomes much wider - its
radius oscillates in time and for all times it is not smaller than the radius
of the unexcited vortex. Moreover, we find that the vector field of the excited
vortex has long range radiative component. Bound on the amplitude of the
excitation is also found.Comment: Latex, 20 pages. 2 figures attached as .uu file to be decoded and
used as input for epsfbox command which is already included in the main Latex
fil
Statistical Mechanics of Charged Particles in Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Theory
We consider an -body system of charged particle coupled to gravitational,
electromagnetic, and scalar fields. The metric on moduli space for the system
can be considered if a relation among the charges and mass is satisfied, which
includes the BPS relation for monopoles and the extreme condition for charged
black holes. Using the metric on moduli space in the long distance
approximation, we study the statistical mechanics of the charged particles at
low velocities. The partition function is evaluated as the leading order of the
large expansion, where is the spatial dimension of the system and will
be substituted finally as .Comment: 11 pages, RevTeX3.
Vortex Dynamics in Selfdual Maxwell-Higgs Systems with Uniform Background Electric Charge Density
We introduce selfdual Maxwell-Higgs systems with uniform background electric
charge density and show that the selfdual equations satisfied by topological
vortices can be reduced to the original Bogomol'nyi equations without any
background. These vortices are shown to carry no spin but to feel the Magnus
force due to the shielding charge carried by the Higgs field. We also study the
dynamics of slowly moving vortices and show that the spin-statistics theorem
holds to our vortices.Comment: 24 pages + 2 figures ( not included), Cu-TP-611, IASSNS-HEP-93/33,
NSF-ITP-93-13
Low energy dynamics of U(1)^{N} Chern-Simons solitons
We apply the adiabatic approximation to investigate the low energy dynamics
of vortices in the parity invariant double self-dual Higgs model with only
mutual Chern-Simons interaction. When distances between solitons are large they
are particles subject to the mutual interaction. The dual formulation of the
model is derived to explain the sign of the statistical interaction. When
vortices of different types pass one through another they behave like charged
particles in magnetic field. They can form a bound state due to the mutual
magnetic trapping. Vortices of the same type exhibit no statistical
interaction. Their short range interactions are analysed. Possible quantum
effects due to the finite width of vortices are discussed.Comment: keywords: vortex, vortices, anyons, fractional statistics, 20 pages
in Latex, accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D, ( the above keywords
missing in the title were added
Enhanced Worldvolume Supersymmetry and Intersecting Domain Walls in N=1 SQCD
We study the worldvolume dynamics of BPS domain walls in N=1 SQCD with N_f=N
flavors, and exhibit an enhancement of supersymmetry for the reduced moduli
space associated with broken flavor symmetries. We provide an explicit
construction of the worldvolume superalgebra which corresponds to an N=2 Kahler
sigma model in 2+1D deformed by a potential, given by the norm squared of a
U(1) Killing vector, resulting from the flavor symmetries broken by unequal
quark masses. This framework leads to a worldvolume description of novel
two-wall junction configurations, which are 1/4-BPS objects, but nonetheless
preserve two supercharges when viewed as kinks on the wall worldvolume.Comment: 35 pages, 3 figures; v2: minor corrections and a reference added, to
appear in Phys. Rev.
Further restrictions on the topology of stationary black holes in five dimensions
We place further restriction on the possible topology of stationary
asymptotically flat vacuum black holes in 5 spacetime dimensions. We prove that
the horizon manifold can be either a connected sum of Lens spaces and "handles"
, or the quotient of by certain finite groups of
isometries (with no "handles"). The resulting horizon topologies include Prism
manifolds and quotients of the Poincare homology sphere. We also show that the
topology of the domain of outer communication is a cartesian product of the
time direction with a finite connected sum of 's
and 's, minus the black hole itself. We do not assume the existence of
any Killing vector beside the asymptotically timelike one required by
definition for stationarity.Comment: LaTex, 22 pages, 9 figure
Towards a classification of static electro-vacuum space-times containing an asymptotically flat spacelike hypersurface with compact interior
We show that static electro-vacuum black hole space-times containing an
asymptotically flat spacelike hypersurface with compact interior and with both
degenerate and non-degenerate components of the event horizon do not exist,
under the supplementary hypothesis that all degenerate components of the event
horizon have charges of the same sign. This extends previous uniqueness
theorems of Simon and Masood-ul-Alam (where only non-degenerate horizons were
allowed) and Heusler (where only degenerate horizons were allowed).Comment: Reverted to original v1; v2 was a result of a manipulation error, and
was meant to be an update to gr-qc/9809088. The problems adressed in the
addendum in v2 of gr-qc/9809088 apply also to this paper, and are similarly
taken care of by the addendum to gr-qc/9809088, and by the analysis in
arXiv:1004.0513 [gr-qc
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