非線性σ模型

在量子場論中，非線性σ模型（nonlinear sigma model） 描述一個純量場 $\sigma (x)\in M$ 。M是目標流形。 $x\in R^{3+1}$ 屬於閔考斯基時空。^[1]

定義

{\mathcal {L}}={1 \over 2}g^{\mu \nu }\partial _{\mu }\sigma \partial _{\nu }\sigma -V(\sigma )

設 $\sigma =n$ 。二維的非線性O(3)模型是

{\mathcal {L}}={\tfrac {1}{2}}\ \partial ^{\mu }{\hat {n}}\cdot \partial _{\mu }{\hat {n}}

其中 $n=(n_{1},n_{2},n_{3})$ ， $n\cdot n=1$ ， $x\in R^{2},\ \mu =1,2$ 。

n是 $S 2 \to S 2$ 的函數。第三個同倫群

$\pi _{3}(S^{2})=\mathbb {Z}$

可以將這些函數分類。上文理論的經典解是O(3) 瞬子。

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