Cosmological evolution of monopoles connected by strings

Phase transitions in the early universe can give rise to a system of vacuum strings. Assuming that the strings are topologically stable, it has been recently shown that they can produce density fluctuations which can subsequently lead to galaxy formation. The present paper examines the cosmological evolution of topologically unstable strings. In this case the system consists of strings having monopoles and antimonopoles at the ends, as well as of closed loops. Various physical processes in the system are discussed in detail. It is shown that monopoles and strings disappear long before any appreciable density fluctuations on a galactic scale can be produced.     

Monopoles without strings: a conflict between the one-photon condition and duality invariance

We prove a new no-go theorem in the Dirac-algebra formulation of generalized electromagnetic theory, which includes magnetic monopoles and uses two potentialsA andM : It is impossible to construct a Lagrangian which is duality invariant and satisfies the one-photon assumption, from which Maxwell's equations and the equations of motion can be derived. Such a Lagrangian can be found only if either duality invariance or the one-photon assumption is sacrificed. These constraints as well as others discussed here are based on recently published results on monopoles without strings in the Dirac algebra, but they do not arise from any artificial restrictions in the Dirac-algebra formulation.     

Nambu-Jona-Lasinio version of magnetic monopole physics with dual Dirac strings

We propose a model where a condensate of monopole-antimonopole pairs leads to confinement. Magnetic monopoles are considered as massless fermion fields interacting via local four-monopole interaction of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio kind leading to monopole condensation. Condensation of magnetic monopole currents and any derivative of them are obtained. It is shown that the bosonized version of this Monopole Nambu-Jona- Lasinio (MNJL) model is reducing to London’s theory of dual superconductivity within Dirac’s extension of Maxwell’s Electrodynamics. The affinity of the MNJL-model with Compact Quantum Electrodynamics is discussed.     

Semi-local cosmic strings and the cosmological constant problem

We study the cosmological constant problem in a three-dimensional N = 2 supergravity theory with gauge groupSU (2)_global × U(1)_local. The model we consider is known to admit string-like configurations, the so-called semi-local cosmic strings. We show that the stability of these solitonic solutions is provided by supersymmetry through the existence of a lower bound for the energy, even though the manifold of the Higgs vacuum does not contain non-contractible loops. Charged Killing spinors do exist over configurations that saturate the Bogomol'nyi bound, as a consequence of an Aharonov-Bohm-like effect. Nevertheless, there are no physical fermionic zero modes on these backgrounds. The exact vanishing of the cosmological constant does not imply, then, Bose-Fermi degeneracy. This provides a non-trivial example of the recent claim made by Witten on the vanishing of the cosmological constant in three dimensions without unphysical degeneracies.     

Inverse problem of dyon and magnetic monopole dynamics

The problem of finding an electromagnetic field allowing the movement of dual-charged particles on the background of an arbitrary static space-time to have a priori given properties, is considered. A solution of this problem is given, and the degree of arbitrariness of the obtained solution is found. Two particular examples of application of the general results are considered.     

Monopoles and holography

Several lattice collaborations performing simulations with 2+1 light dynamical quarks have experienced difficulties in fitting their data with standard N _f = 3 chiral expansions at next-to-leading order, yielding low values of the quark condensate and/ or the decay constant in the N _f = 3 chiral limit. A reordering of these expansions seems required to analyse these data in a consistent way. We discuss such a reordering, known as Resummed Chiral Perturbation Theory, in the case of pseudoscalar masses and decay constants, pion and kaon electromagnetic form factors and K _ℓ3 form factors. We show that it provides a good fit of the recent results of two lattice collaborations (PACS-CS and RBC/UKQCD). We describe the emerging picture for the pattern of chiral symmetry breaking, marked by a strong dependence of the observables on the strange quark mass and thus a significant difference between chiral symmetry breaking in the N _f = 2 and N _f =3 chiral limits. We discuss the consequences for the ratio of decay constants F _K /F _π and the K ℓ3 form factor at vanishing momentum transfer.

     

Monopoles and Clusters

We define and study certain hyperkähler manifolds which capture the asymptotic behaviour of the SU(2)-monopole metric in regions where monopoles break down into monopoles of lower charges. The rate at which these new metrics approximate the monopole metric is exponential, as for the Gibbons-Manton metric.     

Monopoles and geodesics

Using the holomorphic geometry of the space of straight lines in Euclidean 3-space, it is shown that every static monopole of chargek may be constructed canonically from an algebraic curve by means of the Atiyah-Ward Ansatz .     

Monopoles and Baker functions

The work in this paper pertains to the solutions of Nahm's equations, which arise in the Atiyah-Drinfield-Hitchin-Manin-Nahm construction of solutions to the Bogomol'nyi equations for static monopoles. This paper provides an explicit construction of the solution of Nahm's equations which satisfy regularity and reality conditions. The Lax form of Nahm's equations is reduced to a standard eigenvalue problem by a special gauge transformation. These equations may then be solved by the method of Baker-Krichever. This leads to a compact representation of the solutions of Nahm's equations. The regularity condition is shown to be related to the monodromy of the gauge reduced linear operator. Hitchin showed that the solutions of Nahm's equations can be characterized by an algebraic curve and some data on that curve. Here, this characterization reduces to a transcendental equation involving certain loop integrals of a meromorphic differential. Donaldson coordinatized the moduli space ofk-monopoles by a class of rational maps from the Riemann sphere to itself. The data of a Baker function is equivalent to this map. This method gives an apriori construction of the (known) two monopole solutions. We also give a generalization of the two monopole solution to a class of elliptic solutions of arbitrary charge. These solutions correspond to reducible curves with elliptic components and the associated Donaldson rational function has a simple partial fraction expansion.Supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant Number DMS-8701318 and the Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences, sponsored by AFOSR Contract F49620-86-C0130 with the University Research Initiative Program at the University of Arizona     

Monopoles and their symmetries

Properties of spherically symmetric monopoles are discussed. Inversion symmetry is also considered.     

Monopoles and family-replicated unification

The present theory is based on the assumption that, at very small (Planck scale) distances our spacetime is discrete, and this discreteness influences the Planck scale physics. Considering our (3+1)-dimensional spacetime as a regular hypercubic lattice with a parameter a=λ_Pl, where λ_Pl is the Planck length, we have investigated a role of lattice artifact monopoles, which is essential near the Planck scale if the family-replicated gauge group model (FRGGM) is an extension of the Standard Model (SM) at high energies. It was shown that monopoles have N times smaller magnetic charge in the FRGGM than in the SM (N is the number of families in the FRGGM). These monopoles can give an additional contribution to β functions of the renormalization-group equations for the running fine structure constants α_i(μ) (i=1, 2, 3 correspond to the U(1), SU(2), and SU(3) gauge groups of the SM). We have used the Dirac relation for renormalized electric and magnetic charges. Also, we have estimated the enlargement of a number of fermions in the FRGGM leading to the suppression of the asymptotic freedom in the non-Abelian theory. The different role of monopoles in the vicinity of the Planck scale gives rise either to anti-GUT or to the new possibility of unification of gauge interactions (including gravity) at the scale μ_GUT≈10^18.4 GeV. We discussed the possibility of the [SU(5)]³ SUSY or [SO(10)]³ SUSY unifications.     

关于磁单极子的探索

磁单极子的概念自狄拉克提出以来,科学家一直都在努力寻找。虽然在理论上进行了深入的研究,但是在实验中,迄今仍然没能找到它们存在的确凿证据。文章从麦克斯韦方程组的对称性及电荷量子化的角度介绍了磁单极子的提出,磁单极子的单位及性质。并介绍了关于磁单极子的实验探索,除了历史上著名的两次实验外,科学家还在自旋冰中观察到磁单极子的“准粒子”。     

Determinants of Laplacians in real line bundles connected with quantum geometry of strings

We use the Selberg trace formula to derive the expressions for determinants of Laplacians acting in real line bundles over a compact Riemann surface of genus p>1. Such determinants may be important in studying the structure of quantum geometry of strings.     

Magnetic Monopoles and the Orientation Entanglement Relation

We show that Dirac magnetic monopoles do not satisfy the orientationentanglement (OE) relation and do not return to their initial state after a 4rotation. This is done in both the formalism using Dirac strings of singularitiesand in the fiber bundle formalism. In the latter we connect the OE relation tothe first homotopy group of the gauge group. We hypothesize that failure tosatisfy the OE relation is the reason Dirac magnetic monopoles have neverbeen seen.