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Elizabethan vortices

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-12-19 v3 Differential Geometry Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

Radial solutions to the elliptic sinh-Gordon and Tzitzeica equations can be interpreted as Abelian vortices on certain surfaces of revolution. These surfaces have a conical excess angle at infinity (in a way which makes them similar to Elizabethan ruff collars). While they can not be embedded in the Euclidean 3-space, we will show that they can be globally embedded in the hyperbolic space. The existence of these hyperbolic embeddings follows from the asymptotic analysis of a Painleve III ODE.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2301.06191,
  title  = {Elizabethan vortices},
  author = {Maciej Dunajski and Nora Gavrea},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06191},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Dedicated to Nick Manton on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Some typos from the journal version corrected

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