Resolution of SU(2) monopole singularities by oxidation
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-05-06 v1
Abstract
We show how "colored" SU(2) BPS monopoles (that is: SU(2) monopoles satisfying the Bogomol'nyi equation whose Higgs field and magnetic charge vanish at infinity and which are singular at the origin) can be obtained from the BPST instanton by a singular dimensional reduction, explaining the origin of the singularity and implying that the singularity can be cured by the oxidation of the solution. We study the oxidation of other monopole solutions in this scheme.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.01044,
title = {Resolution of SU(2) monopole singularities by oxidation},
author = {Pablo Bueno and Pedro Fernandez-Ramirez and Patrick Meessen and Tomas Ortin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.01044},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages, LaTeX file, no figures