Screening of a color field in an instanton liquid

The screening of an external color field in an instanton liquid is studied. Effective Lagrangians are derived for a weak field and for a strong field in the long-wave approximation. The coupling-constant dependence of the feedback of the field on the instanton liquid is estimated by considering the model problem of a Euclidean pointlike charged color source.     

Scalar field potentials for closed and open cosmological models

We develop a technique for the reconstruction of the potential for a scalar field or a tachyon field, reproducing a given cosmological evolution in a closed and open isotropic cosmological models. Such potentials are explicitly written down for the cases of the evolutions driven by a generic barotropic fluid and by radiation plus a cosmological constant, for the case of a scalar field. For tachyon and pseudo-tachyon fields the potentials are reconstructed for some special cases, corresponding to particular values of the barotropic index.     

Motion of a particle in the instanton field

Wong's and Drechsler and Rosenblum's equations for a particle moving in the Yang-Mills field are solved for motion in the instanton field. Particular cases of motion are considered and expressed in terms of the total angular momentum.     

Exact propagator for an electron in a quadratic saddle-point potential and a magnetic field

We study the propagator for an electron moving in a two-dimensional (2D) quadratic saddle-point potential,in the presence of a perpendicular uniform magnetic field. A closed-form expression for the propagator is derived using the Feynmann path integrals.     

Scalar field collapse with an exponential potential

An analogue of the Oppenheimer–Synder collapsing model is treated analytically, where the matter source is a scalar field with an exponential potential. An exact solution is derived followed by matching to a suitable exterior geometry, and an analysis of the visibility of the singularity. In some situations, the collapse indeed leads to a finite time curvature singularity, which is always hidden from the exterior by an apparent horizon.     

Analytic instanton solutions in two-dimensional field models

Two-dimensional scalar field models with nontrivial potential determined in bounded spatial regions are considered. Exact analytic instanton solutions for these models and soliton solutions for similar three-dimensional systems are obtained.     

Gauge and Lorentz covariant quark propagator in an arbitrary gluon field

The quark propagator in the presence of an arbitrary gluon field is calculated gauge and Lorentz covariantly order by order in terms of powers of the gluon field and its derivatives. The result is independent of the path connecting the ends of the propagator, and the leading order result coincides with the exact propagator in the trivial case of a vanishing gluon field. Received: 5 February 2003 / Published online: 23 May 2003     

Scalar field dynamics on a brane

The dynamics of a flat isotropic brane Universe with two-component matter source —perfect fluid with the equation of statep = (γ − 1)ρ and a scalar field with a power-law potentialV ∼ φ^α is investigated. We describe solutions for which the scalar field energy density scales as a power-law of the scale factor. We also describe solutions existing in regions of the parameter space where these scaling solutions are unstable or do not exist.     

Scalar particle with polarizability in the field of a plane electromagnetic wave and in an electric field

Exact solutions are obtained for the wave equations for a scalar particle that possesses polarizability in the field of a plane electromagnetic wave of arbitrary polarization and in a constant electric field.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 40–43, February, 1991.     

Instantons and fermions in the field of instanton

The number of instantons and the number of zero fermion modes in the field of instanton are calculated. The quantum fluctuations of instantons are studied.     

Gluon field strength correlation functions within a constrained instanton model

We suggest a constrained instanton (CI) solution in the physical QCD vacuum which is described by large-scale vacuum field fluctuations. This solution decays exponentially at large distances. It is stable only if the interaction of the instanton with the background vacuum field is small and additional constraints are introduced. The CI solution is explicitly constructed in the ansatz form, and the two-point vacuum correlator of the gluon field strengths is calculated in the framework of the effective instanton vacuum model. At small distances the results are qualitatively similar to the single instanton case; in particular, the invariant structure is small, which is in agreement with the lattice calculations. Received: 18 June 1999 / Revised version: 21 July 1999 / Published online: 17 February 2000     

Scalar field black holes

With a suitable decomposition of its energy-momentum tensor into pressureless matter and a vacuum type term, we investigate the spherical gravitational collapse of a minimally coupled, self-interacting scalar field, showing that it collapses to a singularity. The formed blackhole has a mass \(M \sim 1/m\) (in Planck units), where m is the mass of the scalar field. If the latter has the axion mass, \(m \sim 10^{-5}\) eV, the former has a mass \(M \sim 10^{-5} M_{\odot }\).     

Distribution of instanton sizes in a simplified instanton gas model

We investigate the distribution of instanton sizes in the framework of a simplified model for ensembles of instantons. This model takes into account the non-diluteness of instantons. The infrared problem for the integration over instanton sizes is dealt with in a self-consistent manner by approximating instanton interactions by a repulsive hard core potential. This leads to a dynamical suppression of large instantons. The characteristic features of the instanton size distribution are studied by means of analytic and Monte Carlo methods. In one dimension exact results can be derived. In any dimension we find a power law behaviour for small sizes, consistent with the semi-classical results. At large instanton sizes the distribution decays exponentially. The results are compared with those from lattice simulations. Received: 15 May 2000 / Revised version: 17 July 2000 / Published online: 25 September 2000     

Scalar field cosmologies in a Bianchi type I universe

The dynamics of a homogeneous, anisotropic, spatially flat Bianchi type I universe filled with a scalar field is studied. Using the usual synchronous form of the line element, general exact solutions for the Einstein field equations are obtained in the case of the exponential-potential scalar field (V=Λexp(k?)) and in the case of the Barrow-Saich potential ( $V \sim \dot \varphi ^2 $ ). Conditions under which inflation can occur are discussed and the late-time behaviour of the models is also considered.     

Scattering off of an instanton

We consider the scattering of a classical colored particle off an instanton. That is, we investigate Wong's equations (or equivalently, the Kaluza-Klein geodesic equations) for a colorSU(2) particle under the influence of a Euclidean instanton. We solve the equations in the limit in which the instanton becomes singular. Our main result is that particles with head-on trajectories scatter off the instanton with a scattering angle of π/3. This angle is independent of the magnitude of the color charge and velocity of the particle as long as both are nonzero. The plane in which the scattering takes place is determined by the particle's initial position and color charge. We also solve for the geodesics for the corresponding (singular) Kaluza-Klein metric onS ⁷.