TY - JOUR
T1 - Abelian Hopfions of the CPn model on R2n+1 and a fractionally powered topological lower bound
AU - Radu, Eugen
AU - Tchrakian, D. H.
AU - Yang, Yisong
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was started as part of project RFP07-PHY of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) . E.R. gratefully acknowledge support by the DFG , in particular, also within the DFG Research Training Group 1620 “Models of Gravity”. E.R. and D.H.T. would like to thank David Foster for collaboration on the issue of numerical Hopfions in dimensions, and are also grateful to Olaf Lechtenfeld, Yasha Shnir, Paul Sutcliffe and especially Mikhail Volkov for valuable discussions.
PY - 2013/10/11
Y1 - 2013/10/11
N2 - Regarding the Skyrme-Faddeev model on R3 as a CP1 sigma model, we propose CPn sigma models on R2n+1 as generalisations which may support finite energy Hopfion solutions in these dimensions. The topological charge stabilising these field configurations is the Chern-Simons charge, namely the volume integral of the Chern-Simons density which has a local expression in terms of the composite connection and curvature of the CPn field. It turns out that subject to the sigma model constraint, this density is a total divergence. We prove the existence of a topological lower bound on the energy, which, as in the Vakulenko-Kapitansky case in R3, is a fractional power of the topological charge, depending on n. The numerical construction of the simplest ring shaped un-knot Hopfion on R5 is also discussed.
AB - Regarding the Skyrme-Faddeev model on R3 as a CP1 sigma model, we propose CPn sigma models on R2n+1 as generalisations which may support finite energy Hopfion solutions in these dimensions. The topological charge stabilising these field configurations is the Chern-Simons charge, namely the volume integral of the Chern-Simons density which has a local expression in terms of the composite connection and curvature of the CPn field. It turns out that subject to the sigma model constraint, this density is a total divergence. We prove the existence of a topological lower bound on the energy, which, as in the Vakulenko-Kapitansky case in R3, is a fractional power of the topological charge, depending on n. The numerical construction of the simplest ring shaped un-knot Hopfion on R5 is also discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2013.07.006
DO - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2013.07.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84881541825
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 875
SP - 388
EP - 407
JO - Nuclear Physics B
JF - Nuclear Physics B
IS - 2
ER -