Gauss' Law and Non-Linear Plane Waves for Yang-Mills Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-04-13 v1
Abstract
We investigate Non-Linear Plane-Wave solutions of the classical Minkowskian Yang-Mills (YM) equations of motion. By imposing a suitable ansatz which solves Gauss' law for the theory, we derive solutions which consist of Jacobi elliptic functions depending on an enumerable set of elliptic modulus values. The solutions represent periodic anharmonic plane waves which possess arbitrary non-zero mass and are exact extrema of the non-linear YM action. Among them, a unique harmonic plane wave with a non-trivial pattern in phase, spin and color is identified. Similar solutions are present in the case while are absent from the theory.
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@article{arxiv.1603.01858,
title = {Gauss' Law and Non-Linear Plane Waves for Yang-Mills Theory},
author = {A. Tsapalis and E. P. Politis and X. N. Maintas and F. K. Diakonos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01858},
year = {2016}
}
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8 pages, 5 figures