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Antikink-Kink Forces Revisited

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-10-22 v1

Abstract

We recalculate the force exerted by an antikink on a kink when their overlapping tail fields are close to either a quadratic or quartic minimum of the field theory potential. Our uniform method of calculation exploits the modified Bogomolny equation satisfied by an accelerating kink. This method has been used before in special cases, but is shown here to have broad applicability.

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@article{arxiv.2410.15412,
  title  = {Antikink-Kink Forces Revisited},
  author = {N. S. Manton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15412},
  year   = {2024}
}

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15 pages

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