Particle Motion in Monopoles and Geodesics on Cones

Maxence Mayrand

Symmetry, integrability and geometry: methods and applications, Tome 10 (2014)

Résumé

The equations of motion of a charged particle in the field of Yang's $\mathrm{SU}(2)$ monopole in 5-dimensional Euclidean space are derived by applying the Kaluza–Klein formalism to the principal bundle $\mathbb{R}^8\setminus\{0\}\to\mathbb{R}^5\setminus\{0\}$ obtained by radially extending the Hopf fibration $S^7\to S^4$, and solved by elementary methods. The main result is that for every particle trajectory $\mathbf{r}:I\to\mathbb{R}^5\setminus\{0\}$, there is a 4-dimensional cone with vertex at the origin on which $\mathbf{r}$ is a geodesic. We give an explicit expression of the cone for any initial conditions.

Détail

Keywords: particle motion; monopoles; geodesics; cones.

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