Published October 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Seiberg-Witten monopole equations on noncommutative R4

  • 1. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Technische Universitaet Dresden, 01062 Dresden (Germany)
  • 2. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Hannover, Appelstrasse 2, 30167 Hannover, Germany (Germany)
  • 3. Steklov Mathematical Institute, Gubkina 8, 119991 Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 4. Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, 141980 Dubna (Russian Federation)
  • 5. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Hannover, Appelstrasse 2, 30167 Hannover (Germany)

Description

It is well known that, due to vanishing theorems, there are no nontrivial finite action solutions to the Abelian Seiberg-Witten (SW) monopole equations on Euclidean four-dimensional space R4. We show that this is no longer true for the noncommutative version of these equations, i.e., on a noncommutative deformation Rθ4 of R4 there exist smooth solutions to the SW equations having nonzero topological charge. We introduce action functionals for the noncommutative SW equations and construct explicit regular solutions. All our solutions have finite energy. We also suggest a possible interpretation of the obtained solutions as codimension four vortex-like solitons representing D(p-4)- and D(p-4)-branes in a Dp-Dp brane system in type II superstring theory

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Journal Title
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Journal Volume
44
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 4527-4554
ISSN
0022-2488
CODEN
JMAPAQ

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(c) 2003 American Institute of Physics.