Sutcliffe, Paul (2022) 'Boundary metrics on soliton moduli spaces.', Journal of high energy physics., 2022 (1). p. 118.
Abstract
The geodesic approximation is a powerful method for studying the dynamics of BPS solitons. However, there are systems, such as BPS monopoles in three-dimensional hyperbolic space, where this approach is not applicable because the moduli space metric defined by the kinetic energy is not finite. In the case of hyperbolic monopoles, an alternative metric has been defined using the abelian connection on the sphere at infinity, but its relation to the dynamics of hyperbolic monopoles is unclear. Here this metric is placed in a more general context of boundary metrics on soliton moduli spaces. Examples are studied in systems in one and two space dimensions, where it is much easier to compare the results with simulations of the full nonlinear field theory dynamics. It is found that geodesics of the boundary metric provide a reasonable description of soliton dynamics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download PDF (622Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2022)118 |
| Publisher statement: | Open Access . This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
| Date accepted: | 05 January 2022 |
| Date deposited: | 28 January 2022 |
| Date of first online publication: | 21 January 2022 |
| Date first made open access: | 28 January 2022 |
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