Sphalerons, instantons, and standing waves on S^3

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00580-3MaRDI QIDQ1904592zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. V. Smilga

Publication date 2 January 1996

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9504117

zbMATH Keywords

equations of motionfinite energy solutionsflat finite spherical boxMinkowski spacetimeselfdual solutionsSU(2) Yang Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-04) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We consider pure $SU(2)$ Yang-Mills theory when the space is compactified to a 3-dimensional sphere with finite radius. The Euclidean classical self-dual solutions of the equations of motion (the instantons) and the static finite energy solutions (the sphalerons) which have been found earlier are rewritten in handy physical variables with the gauge condition $A_0=0$. Stationary solutions to the equations of motion in the Minkowski space-time (the standing waves) are discussed. We briefly discuss also the theory defined in a flat finite spherical box with rigid boundary conditions and present the numerical solution describing the sphaleron.

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