Supersymmetric self-gravitating solitons

1993/10/19 by G. W. Gibbons, D. Kastor, David Kastor +6
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Mathematical physics #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #Physics #Theoretical physics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0550-3213(94)90558-4

published as Nucl.Phys.B416:850-880,1994 · 39 pages, DAMTP R-93/27, phyzzx

arxiv created 1993/10/19 · openalex publication_date 1994/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We show that the `instantonic' soliton of five-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and the closely related BPS monopole of four-dimensional Yang-Mills/Higgs theory continue to be exact static, and stable, solutions of these field theories even after the inclusion of gravitational, electromagnetic and, in the four-dimensional case, dilatonic interactions, provided that certain non-minimal interactions are included. With the inclusion of these interactions, which would be required by supersymmetry, these exact self-gravitating solitons saturate a gravitational version of the Bogomol'nyi bound on the energy of an arbitrary field configuration.

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