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Inspecting baby Skyrmions with effective metrics
Phys. Rev. D 89, 105008 – Published 9 May, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.105008
Abstract
In the present paper we investigate the causal structure of the baby Skyrme model using appropriate geometrical tools. We discuss several features of excitations propagating on top of background solutions and show that the evolution of high frequency waves is governed by a curved effective geometry. Examples are given for which the effective metric describes the interaction between waves and solitonic solutions such as kinks, antikinks, and hedgehogs. In particular, it is shown how violent processes involving the collisions of solitons and antisolitons may induce metrics which are not globally hyperbolic. We argue that it might be illuminating to calculate the effective metric as a diagnostic test for pathological regimes in numerical simulations.
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From Hopf fibrations to exotic causal replacements
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