Nontrivial causal structures engendered by knotted solitons

作者:Goulart E*
来源:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2015, 91(4): 045033.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.91.045033

摘要

It is shown that the causal structure associated to stringlike solutions of the Faddeev-Niemi model is described by an effective metric. Remarkably, the surfaces characterizing the causal replacement depend on the energy momentum tensor of the background soliton and carry implicitly a topological invariant pi(3)(S-2). As a consequence, it follows that the preimage curves in R-3 nontrivially define directions where the cones remain unchanged. We expect that these early results may be of importance in understanding time dependent solutions (collisions/scatterings) numerically or analytically.

  • 出版日期2015-2-23