Hopf Textures
| dc.creator | Rhie, Sun Hong | |
| dc.creator | Bennett, David P. | |
| dc.date | 1992-06-18 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:55:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:55:36Z | |
| dc.description | A Hopf texture is a vacuum field configuration of isovector fields which is an onto map from the space as a large three sphere to the vacuum manifold $S^2$. We construct a Hopf texture with spherically symmetric energy density and discuss the topological charge. A Hopf texture collapses, and we study the collapse process numerically. In our simulations, it is clear that a Hopf texture does not decay into a pair of monopoles. We also argue that the probability of forming Hopf textures in random processes is very small compared to that of global monopoles. | |
| dc.description | 18 pages, 13 figures (not included, but available on request) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9206234 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9206234 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/44620 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Hopf Textures | |
| dc.type | text |