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Dynamics of monopole walls

Maldonado, R.; Ward, R.S.

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Authors

R. Maldonado

R.S. Ward



Abstract

The moduli space of centred Bogomolny–Prasad–Sommerfield 2-monopole fields is a 4-dimensional manifold M with a natural metric, and the geodesics on M correspond to slow-motion monopole dynamics. The best-known case is that of monopoles on R3, where M is the Atiyah–Hitchin space. More recently, the case of monopoles periodic in one direction (monopole chains) was studied a few years ago. Our aim in this note is to investigate M for doubly-periodic fields, which may be visualized as monopole walls. We identify some of the geodesics on M as fixed-point sets of discrete symmetries, and interpret these in terms of monopole scattering and bound orbits, concentrating on novel features that arise as a consequence of the periodicity.

Citation

Maldonado, R., & Ward, R. (2014). Dynamics of monopole walls. Physics Letters B, 734, 328-332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.05.072

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 22, 2014
Online Publication Date May 28, 2014
Publication Date Jun 27, 2014
Deposit Date Jun 6, 2014
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Physics Letters B
Print ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 734
Pages 328-332
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.05.072

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