What does a strongly excited 't Hooft-Polyakov magnetic monopole do?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-08-16 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
The time evolution of strongly exited SU(2) Bogomolny-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) magnetic monopoles in Minkowski spacetime is investigated by means of numerical simulations based on the technique of conformal compactification and on the use of hyperboloidal initial value problem. It is found that an initially static monopole does not radiate the entire energy of the exciting pulse toward future null infinity. Rather, a long-lasting quasi-stable `breathing state' develops in the central region and certain expanding shell structures -- built up by very high frequency oscillations -- are formed in the far away region.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0311061,
title = {What does a strongly excited 't Hooft-Polyakov magnetic monopole do?},
author = {Gyula Fodor and István Rácz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0311061},
year = {2016}
}
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4 pages, 6 figures