Variational cohomology and topological solitons in Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theories

arXiv2103.03037MaRDI QIDQ6362136FDOQ6362136

Authors: E. Winterroth 

Publication date: 4 March 2021

Abstract: In cohomological formulations of the calculus of variations obstructions to the existence of (global) solutions of the Euler--Lagrange equations can arise in principle. It seems, however, quite common to assume that such obstructions always vanish, at least in the cases of interest in theoretical physics. This is not so: for Yang--Mills--Chern--Simons theories in odd dimensions $>5$ we find a non trivial obstruction which leads to a quite strong non existence theorem for topological solitons/instantons. Applied to holographic QCD this reveals then a possible mathematical inconsistency. For solitons in the important Sakai--Sugimoto model this inconsistency takes the form that their $mathfrak{u}_1$-component cannot decay sufficiently fast to ``extend to infinity like the $mathfrak{su}_n$--component.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

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