Knotted instantons from annihilations of monopole-instanton complex
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-01-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
Monopoles and instantons are sheets (membranes) and strings in d=5+1, respectively, and instanton strings can terminate on monopole sheets. We consider a pair of monopole and anti-monopole sheets which is unstable to decay and results in a creation of closed instanton strings. We show that when an instanton string is stretched between the monopole sheets, there remains a new topological soliton of codimension five after the pair annihilation, i.e., a twisted closed instanton string or a knotted instanton.
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@article{arxiv.1206.5551,
title = {Knotted instantons from annihilations of monopole-instanton complex},
author = {Muneto Nitta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.5551},
year = {2014}
}
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20 pages, 9 figures, v2: published version