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Exact BPS domain walls at finite gauge coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-12-06 v3

Abstract

Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield solitons in models with spontaneously broken gauge symmetry have been intensively studied at infinite gauge coupling limit, where the governing equation -- so-called master equation -- is exactly solvable. Except for a handful of special solutions, the standing impression is that analytic results at finite coupling are generally unavailable. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate, using domain walls in Abelian-Higgs models as the simplest example, that exact solitons at finite gauge coupling can be readily obtained if the number of Higgs fields (NFN_F) is large enough. In particular, we present a family of exact solutions, describing NN domain walls at arbitrary positions in models with at least NF2N+1N_F \geq 2N+1. We have also found that adding together any pair of solution can produce a new exact solution if the combined tension is below a certain limit.

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@article{arxiv.1603.00177,
  title  = {Exact BPS domain walls at finite gauge coupling},
  author = {Filip Blaschke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.00177},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

41 pages, 12 figures, typo and spelling corrections, accepted by PTEP