Curved, extended classical solutions I. The undulating kink
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
The energy of extended classical objects, such as vortices, depends on their shape. In particular, we show that the curvature energy of a kink in two spatial dimensions, as a prototype of extended classical solutions, is always negative. We obtain a closed form for the curvature energy, assuming small deviations from the straight line.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0010024,
title = {Curved, extended classical solutions I. The undulating kink},
author = {A. Herat and R. Rademacher and P. Suranyi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0010024},
year = {2009}
}
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7 pages, LaTeX