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Composite solitary waves in three-component scalar field theory: I. The kink variety

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A. Alonso Izquierdo, J. Mateos Guilarte

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Submitted 27 Feb 2006 · 35 references

Pith's verdict: Solid taxonomy of composite kinks in an engineered integrable model; the explicit families hold up, but the seven-body family rests on an unproven gluing assumption.

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CitationA. Alonso Izquierdo, J. Mateos Guilarte. "Composite solitary waves in three-component scalar field theory: I. The kink variety." arXiv:nlin/0602058 (2006). https://pith.science/paper/2A3PX7JA
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In a three-component scalar field model, kinks assemble into composite solitary waves with up to seven energy lumps, and each composite's total energy is exactly the sum of its basic kink energies.

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The paper studies a three-component scalar field theory in (1+1)-dimensional Minkowski space, with the sixth-degree polynomial potential (3). It establishes that the model's static solitary waves form a structured variety classified by the number of energy lumps: one, two, three, four, six, or seven. Each composite kink is built from three basic one-lump kinks, and in every case the total energy is the sum of the energies of those basic kinks; for example, the three-body family $K_3^{OD}(a,b)$ carries energy $1/(2\sqrt{2})$ independent of its two shape parameters. This matters because it shows that multi-scalar field theories can host a much richer spectrum of static multi-lump defects than single-field models, with explicitly parametrized families of such configurations.

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The central mechanism is the use of Jacobi elliptic coordinates $(\lambda,\mu,\nu)$ on the internal space $\mathbb{R}^3$, in which the Hamiltonian of the analogous mechanical system takes the Stäckel form (14) and is Hamilton–Jacobi separable. Finite-action trajectories, obtained by setting the separation constants $E=F_1=F_2=0$, give the kink field profiles; the paper solves the quadratures explicitly for the one- through six-body families and implicitly, via integration constants $\gamma_2,\gamma_3$, for the seven-body family. A second ingredient is the observation that these profiles are gradient-flow lines (26) of the function $W$ given in (25), the potential of the Garnier system, which explains the integrability and leads to the kink energy sum rules.

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The central discovery is a catalogue, within the sectors studied, of the kink variety of model (3). Static finite-energy solutions correspond to finite-action trajectories of an analogous mechanical system; because that system is separable in ellipsoidal coordinates, the solutions can be written for most families as explicit formulas in terms of exponentials, parametrized by lump-separation parameters. The paper exhibits one- and two-parameter families $K_2^{OC}(b)$, $K_2^{BD}(b)$, $K_3^{OD}(a,b)$, $K_4^{BB}(b)$, $K_4^{CC}(b)$, $K_6^{CC}(b)$, and $K_6^{BB}(b)$, plus the two-parameter seven-body family $K_7^{BC}(\gamma_2,\gamma_3)$, whose orbit is built by gluing trajectory segments across the faces of the elliptic cuboid $P(0)$. In all cases the energy is the sum of the basic kink energies, and for the three-body family $E=1/(2\sqrt{2})$ does not depend on the parameters $a,b$.

Load-bearing premise

The construction of the six- and seven-body kinks depends on the unproven assumption that trajectory segments meet smoothly, with continuous derivatives, at the faces of the elliptic cuboid $P(0)$, a point the paper itself flags in Section 3.6; if a rebound is not $C^1$, the concatenated curve is not a solution of the field equations, and those families would not be genuine solitary waves.

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  • Every composite kink's energy is exactly the sum of its basic constituent energies, so the basic kinks exert no net static force on one another when combined in these composites.
  • The two-parameter three-body family $K_3^{OD}(a,b)$ sweeps a two-dimensional moduli space whose members all share the same energy $1/(2\sqrt{2})$.
  • In the parameter space of the three-body family, the number of energy-density maxima changes across domains, so varying the lump separation changes how many lumps a given composite appears to have.
  • The six- and seven-body families, if genuine, are highly unstable equilibrium configurations: any perturbation that splits the centers of superposed basic kinks releases forces.

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  • If the glued seven-body trajectories are indeed $C^1$, the same Hamilton–Jacobi construction should yield arbitrarily long chains of alternating basic kinks with energies obeying the sum rule; searching for an eight-body family would be a direct check.
  • The parameter-independent energy of $K_3^{OD}(a,b)$ suggests a Bogomol'nyi-type lower bound once the topological charges (vacuum endpoints) are fixed; proving such a bound would give an a priori reason for the energy sum rule.
  • The claimed no-force property between resting basic kinks, extended to static composites, implies that the low-energy dynamics on the moduli space will be governed by metrics with curvature for the three- and seven-body families, affecting scattering predictions.
  • If the continuity assumption fails, the seven-body family would reduce to a collection of separate kinks superposed only in parameter space, not a genuine static solution; that can be settled numerically.
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We study the structure of the manifold of solitary waves in a particular three-component scalar field theoretical model in two-dimensional Minkowski space. These solitary waves involve one, two, three, four, six or seven lumps of energy.

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We study the structure of the manifold of solitary waves in a particular three-component scalar field theoretical model in two-dimensional Minkowski space. These solitary waves involve one, two, three, four, six or seven lumps of energy.

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Figure 1. Points belonging to M, umbilical points, focal points, and characteristic curves of the model drawn on and inside the ellipsoid E: (left) Cartesian coordinates. (right) Elliptic coordinates. 2.2 Plane waves and spontaneous symmetry breakdown The zeroes of the potential energy density (8) are also homogeneous static solutions of the field equations (5) with zero energy; in fact, they are absolute minima of the energy in the topological sectors C II . A spontaneous symmetry breaking arises because of the degeneracy of the set M. Whereas the point φ¯O located in the origin preserves…
Figure 2. Kink form factor (a), energy density (b) and orbits (c) for KOB 1 kinks. We shall adopt the policy of showing all the energy density plots with the same vertical range in order to compare the size of the lumps associated with different solitary waves. 2. KCD 1 : Plugging the trial elliptic orbit e3 ≡ φ 2 1 + φ 2 2 σ¯ 2 2 = 1 into the equations (11) we find the eight solutions φ¯ 1(x) = (−1)α p 1 + e 2 √ 2σ 2 2 x¯ ; φ¯ 2(x) = (−1)β p σ¯2 1 + e −2 √ 2¯σ 2 2 x¯ ; φ¯ 3(x) = 0 (16) with α, β, δ = 0, 1. These trajectories are embedded in the φ3 = 0 plane and live in one of the eight C CD…
Figure 3. Kink form factor (a), energy density (b) and orbits (c) for KCD 1 kinks. with α, β, δ = 0, 1. Again the non-null components, φ2 and φ3 in this case, are kink shaped. In
Figure 4. Kink form factor (a), energy density (b) and orbits (c) for KBC 1 kinks. In sum, there exist three kinds of one-body solitary waves or basic extended particles, denoted as KCD 1 , KOB 1 and KBC 1 . The energy of KCD 1 increases as the eccentricity of the ellipse e3 grows, whereas the energy of KOB 1 decreases when the eccentricity of e2 increases. The energy for the KBC 1 lumps depends on the difference of the eccentricity of the ellipses e3 and e2 and becomes zero when these magnitudes are equal. Which basic particle is more energetic depends on the values of the coupling constants…
Figure 5. Kink form factor (a), energy density (b) and orbits (c) for KOC 2 (b) kinks. One of the non-null components, φ2, is again of kink form but the other, φ3 is bell-shaped. The energy density is localized at two different points, i.e. this kind of kinks are formed by two basic lumps and are two-body solitary waves. They are made from one KOB 1 and one KBC 1 kink, although due to the nonlinearity of (19) the composition is much more intricate than the simple sum of expressions (15) and (17). The value of b determines the distance between these lumps; if b = 0, the centers of the one-bod
Figure 6. Form factor (a), energy density (b) and orbits (c) for KBD 2 kinks. KCD 1 , a composition pointing to lack of interaction between these particles at rest. The energy of these two-body kinks depends on the eccentricity of the ellipse e2, E[KBD 2 (b)] = E(KBC 1 ) + E(KCD 1 ) = σ 2 3 (2 − σ 2 3 ) 2 √ 2 The KBD 2 (0) kink orbit is the ellipse e2; for b = 0 E(KBC 1 ) and E(KCD 1 ) are superposed, see [14]. In sum, there are two kinds of static two-body solitary waves formed by either a KOB 1 plus a KBC 1 kinks or a KBC 1 plus KCD 1 lumps. We remark that there is
Figure 8. Form factor (a), energy density (b) and orbits (c) for KOD 3 (0, b) kinks. In the same vein, KOD 3 (a, 0) solitary waves live in the plane φ2 = 0. Each member of the b = 0 family displays two lumps, one KOB 1 kink and a superposition of a KBC 1 and a KCD 1 basic particles. b thus measures the distance between the KBC 1 and KCD 1 basic kinks. There exists a member of the family in the intersection of the two sub-families, i.e., the KOD 3 (0, 0) kink, whose orbit lies on the φ1 axis. Generically, the K3(a, b) solitary waves are three-body kinks, but in the K3(0, 0) configuration the…
Figure 9. Energy Density for KOD 3 (10, b) kinks: a) b = 0, Green zone B, b) b = 5, Green zone B, c) b = 10, Blue zone D, d) b = 240, Green zone C, and e) b = 10000, Green zone C. All the colored zones are shown in
Figure 10. Tiling of the moduli space according to the number of lumps. To make these statements more precise, we need a better understanding of the physical meaning of the (a, b) coordinates parametrizing the moduli space of K3 solitary waves. To achieve this goal, the number of lumps should be identified with the number of maxima of the energy density of the K3 solution on the line. For instance, in the σ 2 3 = 2σ 2 2 = 1 3 case, the energy density reads: EK(z) = 2z(2a 2 + (3a 4 + 4b 2 )z + 12a 2 b 2 z 2 + (10a 2 + a 4 b 2 + 12b 4 )z 3 + (32b 2 + 2a 2 b 4 )z 4 + (27 + 6a 2 b 2 )z 5 + 8a 2 z…
Figure 11. Kink form factor (a), energy density (b) and orbits (c) for KBB 4 kinks. necessarily involves a force between them. Here, we are dealing with a static configuration of two pairs of 16
Figure 12. Kink form factor (a), energy density (b) and orbits (c) for KCC 4 kinks. by the φ1 = 0 plane (λ = 0 and ν = 1 faces in the P(0) cuboid). Thus, all considerations about stability and forces made for the KBB 4 (b) kinks also work for the KCC 4 (b)’s. 3.5 Six-body solitary waves 1. KCC 6 (b): There is a more complicated one-parametric family of solitary waves in the C CC topological sectors living in the φ3 = 0 plane. The potential is restricted V (φ1, φ2, 0) = (φ 2 1 + φ 2 2 )(φ 2 1 + φ 2 2 − 1)2 + 2σ 2 2φ 2 2 (φ 2 1 + φ 2 2 − 1) + σ 4 2φ 2 2 17
Figure 13. Kink form factor (a), energy density (b) and orbits (c) for KCC 6 kinks. 2. KBB 6 : Another one-parametric family of six-body solitary waves exists in the C BB topological sectors, now located on the plane φ2 = 0. Also, the restricted potential energy, V (φ1, 0, φ2) = (φ 2 1 + φ 2 3 )(φ 2 1 + φ 2 3 − 1)2 + 2σ 2 3φ 2 3 (φ 2 1 + φ 2 2 + φ 2 3 − 1) + σ 4 3φ 2 3 , 18
Figure 14. Kink form factor (a), energy density (b) and orbits (c) for KBB 6 kinks. 3.6 Seven-body solitary waves 2. KBC 7 (γ2, γ3): Besides the generic (depending on two parameters) KOD 3 (a, b) kinks, there are other generic solitary waves. Other combinations of signs in the system of equations (23) provide new generic kinks different from KOD 3 (a, b). The kink orbits of these solutions run between the B and C minima tracing a curve with three well-defined stages: 1) First, the kink trajectory departs from the point C at x = −∞ remaining in a octant of the ellipsoid E interior until the
Figure 15. (b) we display the energy showing seven basic lumps: two KCD 1 ’s, two KOB 1 ’s and three KBC 1 ’s, with the peculiarity that three different basic particles always travel together. We remark that there exist no net forces between particles in these configurations but that they are highly unstable against any perturbation splitting the centers of superposed particles. The total energy is: E(KBC 7 ) = 2E(KCD 1 ) + 2E(KOB 1 ) + 3E(KBC 1 ) = 1 √ 2 + σ¯ 4 2 − σ¯ 4 3 2 √ 2 20 40 60 80 -1 -0.5 0.5 1 20 40 60 80 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 D￾D+ C￾B+ B￾A1 A2 A3 F3 F2

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