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Einstein-Yang-Mills solitons: towards new degrees of freedom

1998/08/03 by D. V. Gal'tsov, Gal'tsov, D. V.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9808002

Extended version of a talk given at the International Workshop "Mathematical Cosmology", Potsdam, March 30 - April 4, 1998, Latex, 13 pages (sprocl.sty)

arxiv created 1998/08/03 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

A recent progress in obtaining non-spherical and non-static solitons in the four-dimensional Einstein--Yang--Mills (EYM) theory is discussed, and a non-perturbative formulation of the stationary axisymmetric problem is attempted. First a 2D dilaton gravity model is derived for the spherically symmetric time-dependent configurations. Then a similar Euclidean representation is constructed for the stationary axisymmetric non-circular SU(2) EYM system using the (2+1)+1 reduction scheme suggested by Maeda, Sasaki, Nakamura and Miyama. The crucial role in this reduction is played by the extra terms entering the reduced Yang--Mills and Kaluza--Klein two-forms similarly to Chern--Simons terms in the theories with higher rank antisymmetric tensor fields. We also derive a simple 2D action describing static axisymmetric magnetic EYM configurations and discuss a possibility of existence of cylindrical EYM sphalerons.

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