Hopf Textures
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A Hopf texture is a vacuum field configuration of isovector fields which is an onto map from the space as a large three sphere to the vacuum manifold . We construct a Hopf texture with spherically symmetric energy density and discuss the topological charge. A Hopf texture collapses, and we study the collapse process numerically. In our simulations, it is clear that a Hopf texture does not decay into a pair of monopoles. We also argue that the probability of forming Hopf textures in random processes is very small compared to that of global monopoles.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9206234,
title = {Hopf Textures},
author = {Sun Hong Rhie and David P. Bennett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9206234},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
18 pages, 13 figures (not included, but available on request)