Moduli Space for Kink Collisions with Moving Center of Mass
We apply the collective coordinate model framework to describe collisions of a kink and an antikink with nonzero total momentum, i.e., when the solitons possess different velocities. The minimal moduli space with only two coordinates (the mutual distance and the position of the center of mass) is of...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications |
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| Datum: | 2023 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Інститут математики НАН України
2023
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| Online Zugang: | https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/211975 |
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| Назва журналу: | Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine |
| Zitieren: | Moduli Space for Kink Collisions with Moving Center of Mass. Christoph Adam, Chris Halcrow, Katarzyna Oles, Tomasz Romanczukiewicz and Andrzej Wereszczynski. SIGMA 19 (2023), 054, 18 pages |
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Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine| Zusammenfassung: | We apply the collective coordinate model framework to describe collisions of a kink and an antikink with nonzero total momentum, i.e., when the solitons possess different velocities. The minimal moduli space with only two coordinates (the mutual distance and the position of the center of mass) is of a wormhole type, whose throat shrinks to a point for symmetric kinks. In this case, a singularity is formed. For non-zero momentum, it prohibits solutions where the solitons pass through each other. We show that this unphysical feature can be cured by enlarging the dimension of the moduli space, e.g., by the inclusion of internal modes.
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| ISSN: | 1815-0659 |