Bogomol'nyi Equation for Intersecting Domain Walls

1999/05/31 by G. W. Gibbons, G W Gibbons, Paul Townsend +1 · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.83.1727

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.83:1727-1730,1999 · 4 pages revtex. No figures. Revised version to appear in Physical Review Letters includes discussion of the supersymmetry algebra

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Abstract

We argue that the Wess-Zumino model with quartic superpotential admits stable static solutions in which three domain walls intersect at a junction. We derive an energy bound for such junctions and show that configurations saturating it preserve (1)/(4) supersymmetry.

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