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Solitonic photons and intermediate vector bosons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-02-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A four-dimensional topological field theory is introduced which generalises BFB\wedge F theory to give a Bogomol'nyi structure. A class of non-singular, finite-Action, stable solutions to the variational field equations is identified. The solitonic solutions are analogous to the instanton in Yang-Mills theory. The solutions to the Bogomol'nyi equations in the topologically least complicated U(1)U(1) theory have a well-behaved (covariant) phase space of dimension four---the same as that for photons. The dimensional reduction of the four-dimensional Lagrangian is also examined. Bogomol'nyi U(2)U(2) solitons resembling the intermediate vector bosons ZoZ_o, W±W^\pm are identified.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9403174,
  title  = {Solitonic photons and intermediate vector bosons},
  author = {M. Temple-Raston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9403174},
  year   = {2008}
}

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14 pages, LaTeX, CON-94-2 (a LaTeX typo is corrected)

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