Order - chaos transitions in field theories with topological terms: a dynamical systems approach

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/30/9/014zbMATH Open0924.58049arXivhep-th/9610071OpenAlexW3104718076MaRDI QIDQ4232176FDOQ4232176

S. Lakshmibala, J. Segar, Bindu A. Bambah, C. Mukku, M. S. Sriram

Publication date: 8 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a comparative study of the dynamical behaviour of topological systems of recent interest, namely the non-Abelian Chern-Simons Higgs system and the Yang-Mills Chern-Simons Higgs system. By reducing the full field theories to temporal differential systems using the assumption of spatially homogeneous fields , we study the Lyapunov exponents for two types of initial conditions. We also examine in minute detail the behaviour of the Lyapunov spectra as a function of the various coupling parameters in the system. We compare and contrast our results with those for Abelian Higgs, Yang-Mills Higgs and Yang-Mills Chern-Simons systems which have been discussed by other authors recently. The role of the various terms in the Hamiltonians for such systems in determining the order-disorder transitions is emphasized and shown to be counter-intuitive in the Yang-Mills Chern-Simons Higgs systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9610071

zbMATH Keywords

HamiltoniansLjapunov exponentsLjapunov spectranon-Abelian Chern-Simons Higgs systemspatially homogeneous fieldsYang-Mills Chern-Simons Higgs system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Ergodic theory (37A99)

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