Topology in the bulk: gauge field solitons in extra dimensions

被引：15

作者：

Hill, CT

Ramond, P

机构：

[1] Fermi Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA

[2] Univ Florida, Dept Phys, Inst Fundamental Theory, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

来源：

NUCLEAR PHYSICS B | 2001年 / 596卷 / 1-2期

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D O I：

10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00579-4

中图分类号：

O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];

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摘要：

Certain static soliton configurations of gauge fields in 4 +1 dimensions correspond to the instanton in 4 Euclidean dimensions "turned on its side", becoming a monopole in 4 + 1. The periodic instanton solution can be used with the method of images to construct solutions satisfying D-brane boundary conditions. The theta -term on the brane becomes a topological current source, yielding an emission amplitude for monopoles into the bulk. Instantons have a novel reinterpretation in terms of monopole exchange between branes. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：243 / 258

页数：16

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