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Magnetic bags in hyperbolic space

Bolognesi, S.; Harland, D.; Sutcliffe, P.M.

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S. Bolognesi

D. Harland



Abstract

A magnetic bag is an Abelian approximation to a large number of coincident SU(2) Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield monopoles. In this paper we consider magnetic bags in hyperbolic space and derive their Nahm transform from the large-charge limit of the discrete Nahm equation for hyperbolic monopoles. An advantage of studying magnetic bags in hyperbolic space, rather than Euclidean space, is that a range of exact charge N hyperbolic monopoles can be constructed, for arbitrarily large values of N , and compared with the magnetic bag approximation. We show that a particular magnetic bag (the magnetic disc) provides a good description of the axially symmetric N -monopole. However, an Abelian magnetic bag is not a good approximation to a roughly spherical N -monopole that has more than N zeros of the Higgs field. We introduce an extension of the magnetic bag that does provide a good approximation to such monopoles and involves a spherical non-Abelian interior for the bag, in addition to the conventional Abelian exterior.

Citation

Bolognesi, S., Harland, D., & Sutcliffe, P. (2015). Magnetic bags in hyperbolic space. Physical Review D, 92(2), Article 025052. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.92.025052

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 17, 2015
Publication Date Jul 30, 2015
Deposit Date Aug 1, 2015
Publicly Available Date Aug 11, 2015
Journal Physical Review D
Print ISSN 1550-7998
Electronic ISSN 1550-2368
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 92
Issue 2
Article Number 025052
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.92.025052

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