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Boosted Kaluza- Klein magnetic monopole

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-05-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider a Kaluza-Klein vacuum solution which is closely related to the Gross-Perry-Sorkin (GPS) magnetic monopole. The solution can be obtained from the Euclidean Taub-NUT solution with an extra compact fifth spatial dimension within the formalism of Kaluza-Klein reduction. We study its physical properties as appearing in (3+1)(3+1) spacetime dimensions, which turns out to be a static magnetic monopole. We then boost the GPS magnetic monopole along the extra dimension, and perform the Kaluza-Klein reduction. The resulting four-dimensional spacetime is a rotating stationary system, with both electric and magnetic fields. In fact, after the boost the magnetic monopole turns into a string connected to a dyon.

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@article{arxiv.1805.02509,
  title  = {Boosted Kaluza- Klein magnetic monopole},
  author = {S. Sedigheh Hashemi and Nematollah Riazi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.02509},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

11 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1405.4785

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