Published January 21, 2004 | Version v1
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Gravitating SU(N) monopoles from harmonic maps

Creators

  • 1. Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Mons, 7000 Mons (Belgium)
  • 2. School of Engineering and Sciences, International University Bremen (IUB), 28725 Bremen (Germany)
  • 3. Institute of Mathematics, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NF (United Kingdom)
  • 4. Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE (United Kingdom)

Description

Spherically symmetric solutions of the SU(N) Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs system are constructed using the harmonic map ansatz. This way the problem reduces to solving a set of ordinary differential equations for the appropriate profile functions. In the SU(2) case, we recover the equations studied in great detail previously, while in the SU(N) (N > 2) one we find new solutions which correspond to monopole-antimonopole configurations

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/21/517/cqg4_2_015.pdf or at the Web site for the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (ISSN 1361-6382) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/21/517/cqg4_2_015.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/21/2/015;
PII
S0264-9381(04)70119-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
21
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 517-526
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35024861
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; HIGGS MODEL; MONOPOLES; SU GROUPS; YANG-MILLS THEORY
Descriptors DEC
EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; SYMMETRY GROUPS