Knotted domain strings

Eto, Minoru; Gudnason, Sven Bjarke

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.09.062

Knotted domain strings

Minoru Eto
(
- Yamagata U. and
- Hebrew U.
)
,
Sven Bjarke Gudnason
(
- Hebrew U. and
- Yamagata U.
)

Dec, 2012

5 pages

Published in:

Phys.Lett.B 727 (2013) 260-264

Published: Nov 25, 2013

e-Print:

1212.0702 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1016/j.physletb.2013.09.062

Report number:

YGHP-12-52

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Abstract: (Elsevier)

We construct meta-stable knotted domain strings on the surface of a soliton of the shape of a torus in 3+1 dimensions. We consider the simplest case of Z2 Wess–Zumino-type domain walls for which we can cover the torus with a domain string accompanied with an anti-domain string. In this theory, all (p,q) -torus knots can be realized as a linked pair of a(n) (un)knotted domain string and an anti-domain string.

Note:

6 pages, 8 figures; V2: extended version with more details about the host model, the numerics and the stability of the solutions

Classical field theory
Solitons
Torus knots
dimension: 1
string
torus
domain wall
soliton
Z(2)
knot theory

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