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Multi-Soliton Dynamics of Anti-Self-Dual Gauge Fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-01-12 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We study dynamics of multi-soliton solutions of anti-self-dual Yang-Mills equations for G=GL(2,C) in four-dimensional spaces. The one-soliton solution can be interpreted as a codimension-one soliton in four-dimensional spaces because the principal peak of action density localizes on a three-dimensional hyperplane. We call it the soliton wall. We prove that in the asymptotic region, the n-soliton solution possesses n isolated localized lumps of action density, and interpret it as n intersecting soliton walls. More precisely, each action density lump is essentially the same as a soliton wall because it preserves its shape and "velocity" except for a position shift of principal peak in the scattering process. The position shift results from the nonlinear interactions of the multi-solitons and is called the phase shift. We calculate the phase shift factors explicitly and find that the action densities can be real-valued in three kind of signatures. Finally, we show that the gauge group can be G=U(2) in the Ultrahyperbolic space (the split signature (+, +, -, -)). This implies that the intersecting soliton walls could be realized in all region in N=2 string theories. It is remarkable that quasideterminants dramatically simplify the calculations and proofs.

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@article{arxiv.2106.01353,
  title  = {Multi-Soliton Dynamics of Anti-Self-Dual Gauge Fields},
  author = {Masashi Hamanaka and Shan-Chi Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.01353},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

21 pages; v3: minor changes, proof of unitarity simplified, version to appear in JHEP