Yang-Mills solutions on Minkowski space via non-compact coset spaces

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2022.137564arXiv2206.12009MaRDI QIDQ6403017FDOQ6403017

Jona Röhrig, Olaf Lechtenfeld, Gabriel Picanço Costa, Kaushlendra Kumar

Publication date: 23 June 2022

Abstract: We find a two-parameter family of solutions of the Yang-Mills equations for gauge group SO(1,3) on Minkowski space by foliating different parts of it with non-compact coset spaces with SO(1,3) isometry. The interior of the lightcone is foliated with hyperbolic space $H^{3}congextSO(1,3)/extSO(3)$, while the exterior of the lightcone employs de Sitter space dS${}_{3}congextSO(1,3)/extSO(1,2)$. The lightcone itself is parametrized by SO(1,3)/ISO(2) in a nilpotent fashion. Equivariant reduction of the SO(1,3) Yang-Mills system on the first two coset spaces yields a mechanical system with inverted double-well potential and the foliation parameter serving as an evolution parameter. Its known analytic solutions are periodic or runaway except for the kink. On the lightcone, only the vacuum solution remains. The constructed Yang-Mills field strength is singular across the lightcone and of infinite action due to the noncompact cosets. Its energy-momentum tensor takes a very simple form, with energy density of opposite signs inside and outside the lightcone.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20) Holomorphically convex complex spaces, reduction theory (32E05)

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