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Semi-Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield sphaleron and its dynamics
A Alonso-Izquierdo1, S Navarro-Obregón2, K Oles3
1Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Salamanca, Casas del Parque 2 and Institute of Fundamental Physics and Mathematics, University of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced 1, 37008-Salamanca, Spain.
Abstract:
We construct a simple field theory in which a sphaleron, i.e., a saddle-point particle-like solution, forms a semi-BPS state with a background defect that is an impurity. This means that there is no static force between the sphaleron and the impurity. Therefore, such a sphaleron-impurity system is very much like usual BPS multisolitons, however, still possessing an unstable direction allowing for its decay. We study dynamics of the sphaleron in such a system.
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