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Moving Stable Solitons in Galileon Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-07-19 v3

Abstract

Despite the no-go theorem [5] which rules out static stable solitons in Galileon theory, we propose a family of solitons that evade the theorem by traveling at the speed of light. These domain-wall-like solitons are stable under small fluctuations-analysis of perturbation shows neither ghost-like nor tachyon-like instabilities, and perturbative collision of these solitons suggests that they pass through each other asymptotically, which maybe an indication of the integrability of the theory itself.

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@article{arxiv.1201.3132,
  title  = {Moving Stable Solitons in Galileon Theory},
  author = {Ali Masoumi and Xiao Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.3132},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures, references added, minor corrections