THE NUMBER OF SPHALERON INSTABILITIES OF THE BARTNIK-MCKINNON SOLITONS AND NON-ABELIAN BLACK-HOLES

Authors
VOLKOV MS BRODBECK O LAVRELASHVILI G STRAUMANN N
Citation
Ms. Volkov et al., THE NUMBER OF SPHALERON INSTABILITIES OF THE BARTNIK-MCKINNON SOLITONS AND NON-ABELIAN BLACK-HOLES, Physics letters. Section B, 349(4), 1995, pp. 438-442
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. Section B → ACNP
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
349
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
438 - 442
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1995)349:4<438:TNOSIO>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
It is proven that there are precisely n odd-parity sphaleron-like unst able modes of the n-th Bartnik-McKinnon soliton and the n-th non-abeli an black hole solution of the Einstein-Yang-Mills theory for the gauge group SU(2).