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Nontopological Electromagnetic Hedgehogs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-02-02 v2

Abstract

We study classical localised configurations - solitons - in a theory of self-interacting complex Proca field with the global U(1)U(1) symmetry. We focus on spherically-symmetric solitons near the nonrelativistic limit, which are supported by the quartic interactions of the neutral Proca field. Such solitons can source the radial electric (magnetic) field if one introduces a parity-even (parity-odd) coupling of the Proca field to the electromagnetic field tensor. We discuss the conditions of existence of such nontopological ''electromagnetic hedgehogs'' and their properties.

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@article{arxiv.2405.01335,
  title  = {Nontopological Electromagnetic Hedgehogs},
  author = {Yulia Galushkina and Emin Nugaev and Andrey Shkerin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.01335},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures

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