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Vortex solutions of Liouville equation and quasi spherical surfaces

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-07-15 v1 Other Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We identify the two-dimensional surfaces corresponding to certain solutions of the Liouville equation of importance for mathematical physics, the non-topological Chern-Simons (or Jackiw-Pi) vortex solutions, characterized by an integer N1N \ge 1. Such surfaces, that we call S2(N)S^2 (N), have positive constant Gaussian curvature, KK, but are spheres only when N=1N=1. They have edges, and, for any fixed KK, have maximal radius cc that we find here to be c=N/Kc = N / \sqrt{K} . If such surfaces are constructed in a laboratory by using graphene (or any other Dirac material), our findings could be of interest to realize table-top Dirac massless excitations on nontrivial backgrounds. We also briefly discuss the type of three-dimensional spacetimes obtained as the product S2(N)×RS^2 (N) \times \mathbb{R}.

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@article{arxiv.2003.10902,
  title  = {Vortex solutions of Liouville equation and quasi spherical surfaces},
  author = {Alfredo Iorio and Pavel Kus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.10902},
  year   = {2020}
}

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17 pages, 15 figures;