Gravity-assisted solution of the mass gap problem for pure Yang-Mills fields

DOI10.1142/S0219887811005646zbMATH Open1243.83064arXiv1001.0029OpenAlexW3125673205MaRDI QIDQ2891015FDOQ2891015

Authors: Arkady L. Kholodenko 

Publication date: 12 June 2012

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1979 Louis Witten demonstrated that stationary axially symmetric Einstein field equations and those for static axially symmetric self-dual SU(2) gauge fields can both be reduced to the same (Ernst) equation. In this paper we use this result as point of departure to prove the existence of the mass gap for quantum source-free Yang-Mills (Y-M) fields. The proof is facilitated by results of our recently published paper, JGP 59 (2009) 600-619. Since both pure gravity, the Einstein-Maxwell and pure Y-M fields are described for axially symmetric configurations by the Ernst equation classically, their quantum descriptions are likely to be interrelated. Correctness of this conjecture is successfully checked by reproducing (by different methods) results of Korotkin and Nicolai, Nucl.Phys.B475 (1996) 397-439, on dimensionally reduced quantum gravity. Consequently, numerous new results supporting the Faddeev-Skyrme (F-S) -type models are obtained. We found that the F-S-like model is best suited for description of electroweak interactions while strong interactions require extension of Witten's results to the SU(3) gauge group. Such an extension is nontrivial. It is linked with the symmetry group SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) of the Standard Model. This result is quite rigid and should be taken into account in development of all grand unified theories. Also, the alternative (to the F-S-like) model emerges as by-product of such an extension. Both models are related to each other via known symmetry transformation. Both models possess gap in their excitation spectrum and are capable of producing knotted/linked configurations of gauge/gravity fields. In addition, the paper discusses relevance of the obtained results to heterotic strings and to scattering processes involving topology change. It ends with discussion about usefulness of this information for searches of Higgs boson.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0029

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zbMATH Keywords

Bose-Einstein condensationinstantonsknotsHiggs bosonstandard modelmonopolescaloronsextended Ricci flowLandau-LifshitzEinstein's vacuum and electrovacuum equationsErnstFloer's theoryGross-pitaevskilinks and hyperbolic 3-manifoldsRichardson-Gaudin equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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