Regular solutions in -Yang-Mills theory
arXiv:1806.11445 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.064056
Abstract
We consider extended covariant teleparallel gravity whose action is analytic in the torsion scalar and which is sourced by an valued Yang-Mills field. Specifically, we search for regular solutions to the coupled Yang-Mills system. For we, not surprisingly, recover the Bartnik-McKinnon solitons of Einstein Yang-Mills theory. However, interesting effects are discovered with the addition of terms in the action which are nonlinear in the torsion scalar, which we specifically study up to cubic order. With the addition of the nonlinear terms the number of regular solutions becomes finite. As well, beyond critical values of the coupling constants we find that there exist \emph{no} regular solutions. These behaviors are asymmetric with respect to the sign of the nonlinear coupling constants and the elimination of regular solutions turns out to be extremely sensitive to the presence of the cubic coupling. It may be possible, therefore, that with sufficiently high powers of torsion in the action, there may be no regular Yang-Mills static solutions.
12 pages, 8 figures. v2: Typographical errors corrected. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
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