Monopoles, Vortices and Kinks in the Framework of Non-Commutative Geometry
Noncommutative differential geometry allows a scalar field to be regarded as a gauge connection, albeit on a discrete space. We explain how the underlying gauge principle corresponds to the independence of physics on the choice of vacuum state, should it be nonunique. A consequence is that Yang-Mill...
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1997
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| Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/1876 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.56.2291 |
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| Summary: | Noncommutative differential geometry allows a scalar field to be regarded as a gauge connection, albeit on a discrete space. We explain how the underlying gauge principle corresponds to the independence of physics on the choice of vacuum state, should it be nonunique. A consequence is that Yang-Mills-Higgs theory can be reformulated as a generalized Yang-Mills gauge theory on Euclidean space with a Z2 internal structure. By extending the Hodge star operation to this noncommutative space, we are able to define the notion of self-duality of the gauge curvature form in arbitrary dimensions. It turns out that BPS monopoles, critically coupled vortices, and kinks are all self-dual solutions in their respective dimensions. We then prove, within this unified formalism, that static soliton solutions to the Yang-Mills-Higgs system exist only in one, two, and three spatial dimensions. |
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