Supersymmetric Self-Gravitating Solitons
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-07 v1
Abstract
We show that the `instantonic' soliton of five-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and the closely related BPS monopole of four-dimensional Yang-Mills/Higgs theory continue to be exact static, and stable, solutions of these field theories even after the inclusion of gravitational, electromagnetic and, in the four-dimensional case, dilatonic interactions, provided that certain non-minimal interactions are included. With the inclusion of these interactions, which would be required by supersymmetry, these exact self-gravitating solitons saturate a gravitational version of the Bogomol'nyi bound on the energy of an arbitrary field configuration.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9310118,
title = {Supersymmetric Self-Gravitating Solitons},
author = {G. W. Gibbons and D. Kastor and L. A. J. London and P. K. Townsend and J. Traschen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9310118},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
39 pages, DAMTP R-93/27, phyzzx