1206.5551 (Muneto Nitta)

Knotted instantons from annihilations of monopole-instanton complex    [PDF]

Muneto Nitta

Monopoles and instantons are sheets (membranes) and strings in d=5+1, respectively, and instanton strings can terminate on monopole sheets. We consider a pair of monopole and anti-monopole sheets which is unstable to decay and results in a creation of closed instanton strings. We show that when an instanton string is stretched between the monopole sheets, there remains a new topological soliton of codimension five after the pair annihilation, i.e., a twisted closed instanton string or a knotted instanton.

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