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Knotted domain strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-11-12 v2

Abstract

We construct meta-stable knotted domain strings on the surface of a soliton of the shape of a torus in 3+1 dimensions. We consider the simplest case of Z2 Wess-Zumino-type domain walls for which we can cover the torus with a domain string accompanied with an anti-domain string. In this theory, all (p,q)-torus knots can be realized as a linked pair of a(n) (un)knotted domain string and an anti-domain string.

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@article{arxiv.1212.0702,
  title  = {Knotted domain strings},
  author = {Minoru Eto and Sven Bjarke Gudnason},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.0702},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

6 pages, 8 figures; V2: extended version with more details about the host model, the numerics and the stability of the solutions

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