Optical knots and contact geometry. I: From Arnol'd inequality to Ranada's dyons

DOI10.1007/S13324-015-0112-6zbMATH Open1342.35365arXiv1402.1793OpenAlexW1718848952MaRDI QIDQ300511FDOQ300511

Arkady L. Kholodenko

Publication date: 28 June 2016

Published in: Analysis and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently there had been a great deal of activity associated with various schemes of designing both analytical and experimental methods describing knotted structures in electrodynamics and in hydrodynamics.The majority of works in electrodynamics were inspired by the influential paper by Ranada (1989) and its subsequent refinements. In this work and in its companion we analyze Ranada's results using methods of contact geometry and topology. Not only our analysis allows us to reproduce his major results but,in addition, it provides opportunities for considerably extending the catalog of known knot types. Furthermore,it allows to reinterpret both the electric and magnetic charges purely topologically thus opening the possibility of treatment of masses and charges in Yang-Mills and gravity theories also topologically. According to(now proven) Thurston's geometrization conjecture complements of all knots/links in S^3 are spaces of positive, zero or negative curvature. This means that spaces around our topological masses/charges are also curved. This fact is essential for design of purely topological theories of gravity, electromagnetism and strong/weak interactions

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1793

zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamicselectrodynamicsknotted structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Foundations in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A02) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Foundations of fluid mechanics (76A02)

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