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Knots from wall--anti-wall annihilations with stretched strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-06-18 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A pair of a domain wall and an anti-domain wall is unstable to decay. We show that when a vortex-string is stretched between the walls, there remains a knot soliton (Hopfion) after the pair annihilation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1205.2443,
  title  = {Knots from wall--anti-wall annihilations with stretched strings},
  author = {Muneto Nitta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.2443},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

10 pages, 6 figures, published version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1205.2442

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