Global structure of moduli space for BPS walls

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作者
Eto, M [1 ]
Isozumi, Y
Nitta, M
Ohashi, K
Ohta, K
Sakai, N
Tachikawa, Y
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[1] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1528551, Japan
[2] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1120033, Japan
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2005年 / 71卷 / 10期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.71.105009
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We study the global structure of the moduli space of BPS walls in the Higgs branch of supersymmetric theories with eight supercharges. We examine the structure in the neighborhood of a special Lagrangian submanifold M, and find that the dimension of the moduli space can be larger than that naively suggested by the index theorem, contrary to previous examples of BPS solitons. We investigate BPS wall solutions in an explicit example of M using Abelian gauge theory. Its Higgs branch turns out to contain several special Lagrangian submanifolds including M. We show that the total moduli space of BPS walls is the union of these submanifolds. We also find interesting dynamics between BPS walls as a by-product of the analysis. Namely, mutual repulsion and attraction between BPS walls sometimes forbid a movement of a wall and lock it in a certain position; we also find that a pair of walls can transmute to another pair of walls with different tension after they pass through.
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