Moduli space for kink collisions with moving center of mass

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2023.054MaRDI QIDQ6116830zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christoph Adam, Chris Halcrow, Katarzyna Oles, Tomasz Romanczukiewicz, Andrzej Wereszczyński

Publication date 16 August 2023

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07895

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacetopological solitonscollective coordinates method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Soliton equations (35Q51) Model quantum field theories (81T10)

Abstract: We apply the collective coordinate model framework to describe collisions of a kink and an antikink with nonzero total momentum, i.e., when the solitons possess different velocities. The minimal moduli space with only two coordinates (the mutual distance and the position of the center of mass) is of a wormhole type, whose throat shrinks to a point for symmetric kinks. In this case, a singularity is formed. For non-zero momentum, it prohibits solutions where the solitons pass through each other. We show that this unphysical feature can be cured by enlarging the dimension of the moduli space, e.g., by the inclusion of internal modes.

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