Friday, February 15, 2013

1302.3232 (Fabrizio Canfora et al.)

Hedgehog ansatz and its generalization for self-gravitating Skyrmions    [PDF]

Fabrizio Canfora, Hideki Maeda
The hedgehog ansatz for spherically symmetric spacetimes in self-gravitating nonlinear sigma models and Skyrme models is revisited and its generalization for non-spherically symmetric spacetimes is proposed. The key idea behind our construction is that, even if the matter fields depend on the Killing coordinates in a non-trivial way, still the corresponding energy-momentum tensor can be compatible with spacetime symmetries. Our generalized hedgehog ansatz reduces the Skyrme equations to coupled differential equations for two scalar fields together with several constraint equations between them. Some particular field configurations satisfying those constraints are presented in several physically important spacetimes including stationary and axisymmetric spacetimes. Incidentally, a new exact solution is obtained under the standard hedgehog ansatz, which represents a global monopole inside a black hole with the Skyrme effect.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3232

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