Derrick's theorem beyond a potential

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2011)073zbMATH Open1296.81045arXiv1002.4873MaRDI QIDQ457415FDOQ457415

Authors: Solomon Endlich, Kurt Hinterbichler, Lam Hui, Alberto Nicolis, Junpu Wang 

Publication date: 26 September 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Scalar field theories with derivative interactions are known to possess solitonic excitations, but such solitons are generally unsatisfactory because the effective theory fails precisely where nonlinearities responsible for the solitons are important. A new class of theories possessing (internal) galilean invariance can in principle bypass this difficulty. Here, we show that these galileon theories do not possess stable solitonic solutions. As a by-product, we show that no stable solitons exist for a different class of derivatively coupled theories, describing for instance the infrared dynamics of superfluids, fluids, solids and some k-essence models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4873

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zbMATH Keywords

global symmetriessigma modelssolitons monopoles and instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20) Statistical mechanics of liquids (82D15) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50)

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• Aspects of Galileon non-renormalization
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• Classical solutions of higher-derivative theories
• Stable static structures in models with higher-order derivatives

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