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Filip Blaschke

Publications and source records attributed to Filip Blaschke.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources

arXiv2026

Five benefits of grand unified $SU(5)$ brane world scenario

We construct an $SU(5)$ Grand Unified Theory on domain walls in the five-dimensional space-time. In this setup, we introduce an adjoint scalar field and a singlet that together form a set of five domain-wall solutions, realizing a dynamical brane-world. The same scalar fields also localize chiral fermion zero modes around the walls via the Jackiw-Rebbi mechanism, break $SU(5)$ down to the Standard Model gauge group via geometric Higgs mechanism and simultaneously trap gauge fields through a field-dependent gauge kinetic term. Furthermore, they enable localization of the Higgs field, providing a novel solution to the doublet-triplet splitting problem. As a result, all essential ingredients of the model are realized by a single adjoint scalar field and a singlet, making the construction very economical. We propose two realizations of the Higgs sector, derive the four-dimensional effective theory, and demonstrate that the Standard Model Yukawa couplings at the weak scale can be reproduced from the five-dimensional Yukawa couplings by the renormalization group analysis with a suitable choice of parameters.

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arXiv2026

Scattering of kinks in Frankensteinian potentials: Kinks as bubbles of exotic mass and phase transitions in oscillon production

We present a dynamical picture of kink-anti-kink scattering in a pair of special, Frankensteinian potentials made of piece-wise quadratic and linear pieces. Specifically, we focus on models that support kinks without skin and core regions. We propose an intuitive interpretation for these models as being essentially free massive theories with a built-in particle-pair like production mechanism that enters into the dynamics above certain field-value thresholds. We present results concerning the kink's characteristics depending on these thresholds and the distribution of bouncing windows. We show that the second model exhibits a phase-transition-like property in which the nature of collisions switches from disintegration into a massive wave to production of oscillons for large segments of initial velocities when the field threshold is low enough.

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arXiv2025

Magnetic monopoles with an internal degree of freedom

We consider a class of spontaneously broken $SU(2)$ gauge theories with adjoint scalar and look for exact magnetic monopole solutions in the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) limit. We find that some of the resulting solutions exhibit a new internal degree of freedom (a moduli space parameter) that controls the energy density profile of the monopole while keeping the total energy (mass) constant.

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arXiv2024

Scattering of kinks in coreless potentials

We explore the relevance of the central hill for a symmetric double-well potential and its impact on the scattering of kinks in a scalar field theory in (1+1)-dimensions. This region controls the inner core structure of the kink. We study how the disappearance of analyticity in this region of the potential affects the resonant features in $K\bar{K}$ scattering.

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arXiv2024

Electroweak Monopole-Antimonopole Pair Production at LHC

The monopole production at LHC crucially depends on the monopole production mechanism. We show that, if the monopole production mechanism at LHC is the thermal fluctuation of the Higgs vacuum as the early universe did, it is practically impossible for LHC to produce the monopole, even with the future FCC energy upgrade. This is because the temperature of the p-p fireball is simply too low to produce the monopole. But if the monopole production mechanism is the Drell-Yan and/or Schwinger mechanism, the 14 TeV LHC could produce the monopole in the form of the monopolium of mass around 5,7 TeV even when the monopole mass becomes 11 TeV. Or, it could produce the monopole when the mass is less than 7 TeV. Our result tells that, if the monopole production mechanism at LHC becomes the thermal fluctuation, searching for the remnant monopoles produced in the early universe could be the only way to detect the electroweak monopole. We discuss the physical implications of our result.

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arXiv2023

Magnetic monopoles in extensions of Georgi-Glashow model

We discuss a class of effective extensions of the $SU(2)$ Georgi-Glashow model and discuss its Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) limit. We identify a specific subclass of these models that admit analytical solutions of the monopole type. We present some concrete examples and find that the resulting monopoles tend to have their energy concentrated not in their center, but rather in a spherical shell around it.

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arXiv2023

Mechanization of scalar field theory in (1+1)-dimensions: BPS mech-kinks and their scattering

We present an updated version of a general-purpose collective coordinate model that aims to fully map out the dynamics of a single scalar field in (1+1)-dimensions. This is achieved by a procedure that we call a `mechanization': we reduce the infinite number of degrees of freedom down to a finite and controllable number by chopping the field into flat segments connected via joints. In this paper, we introduce two new ingredients to our procedure. The first is a manifestly BPS mechanization in which BPS mech-kinks saturate the same bound on energy as their field-theoretical progenitors. The second is allowing the joints to `switch', leading to an extended concept of the effective Lagrangian, through which we describe direct collisions of mech-kinks and anti-kinks.

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arXiv2023

Shapes of magnetic monopoles in effective $SU(2)$ models

We present a systematic exploration of a general family of effective $SU(2)$ models with an adjoint scalar. First, we discuss a redundancy in this class of models and use it to identify seemingly different, yet physically equivalent models. Next, we construct the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) limit and derive analytic monopole solutions. In contrast to the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole, included here as a special case, these solutions tend to exhibit more complex energy density profiles. Typically, we obtain monopoles with a hollow cavity at their core where virtually no energy is concentrated; accordingly, most of the monopole's energy is stored in a spherical shell around its core. Moreover, the shell itself can be structured, with several "sub-shells". A recipe for the construction of these analytic solutions is presented.

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arXiv2023

All finite-mass Dirac monopoles

We present a "primitive" way of realizing finite-mass Dirac monopoles in $U(1)$ gauge theories involving a single non-minimally interacting scalar field. Typically, the energy density of this type of monopole is not concentrated at its core, but it is distributed in a spherical shell, as we illustrate on several exact solutions in the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) limit. We show that our construction can be interpreted as a limit of infinitely massive $W$ bosons coupled to electromagnetic field-strength via a dipole moment. Combining our approach with ideas of Weinberg and Lee, we present a general landscape of $U(1)$ gauge models that support a finite-mass Dirac monopole. In fact, all classical monopoles, i.e., Wu-Yang, 't Hooft-Polyakov, Cho-Maison, etc., are special points on this landscape.

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arXiv2022

Mechanization of scalar field theory in 1+1 dimensions

The `mechanization' is a procedure of replacing a scalar field in 1+1 dimensions with a piece-wise linear function, i.e. a finite graph consisting of $N$ joints (vertices) and straight segments (edges). As a result, the field theory is approximated by a sequence of algebraically tractable, general-purpose collective coordinate mechanical models. We observe the step-by-step emergence of dynamical objects and associated phenomena as the $N$ increases. Mech-kinks and mech-oscillons -- mechanical analogs of kinks and oscillons (bions) -- appear in the simplest models, while more intricate dynamical patterns, such as bouncing phenomenon and bion pair-production, emerge gradually as decay states of high $N$ mech-oscillons.

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arXiv2021

Pedal coordinates and free double linkage

Using the technique of pedal coordinates we investigate the orbits of a free double linkage. We provide a geometrical construction for them and also show a surprising connection between this mechanical system and orbits around a Black Hole and solutions of Dark Kepler problem.

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arXiv2021

SM gauge fields localized on non-Abelian vortices in 6 dimensions

A brane-world $SU(5)$ GUT model with global non-Abelian vortices is constructed in six-dimensional spacetime. We find a solution with a vortex associated to $SU(3)$ separated from another vortex associated to $SU(2)$. This $3-2$ split configuration achieves a geometric Higgs mechanism for $SU(5)\to SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ symmetry breaking. A simple deformation potential induces a domain wall between non-Abelian vortices, leading to a linear confining potential. The confinement stabilizes the vortex separation moduli, and assures the vorticity of $SU(3)$ group and of $SU(2)$ group to be identical. This dictates the equality of the numbers of fermion zero modes in the fundamental representation of $SU(3)$ (quarks) and of $SU(2)$ (leptons), leading to quark-lepton generations. The standard model massless gauge fields are localized on the non-Abelian vortices thanks to a field-dependent gauge kinetic function. We perform fluctuation analysis with an appropriate gauge fixing and obtain a four-dimensional effective Lagrangian of unbroken and broken gauge fields at quadratic order. We find that $SU(3) \times SU(2) \times U(1)$ gauge fields are localized on the vortices and exactly massless. Complications in analyzing the spectra of gauge fields with the nontrivial gauge kinetic function are neatly worked out by a vector-analysis like method.

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arXiv2020

Solitons in Peyrard-Bishop model of DNA and the Renormalization group method

We investigate solitons in Peyrard-Bishop model of DNA molecule using Renormalization group methods which provide a systematic way for perturbation analysis. Small amplitude expansion is carried out in both the continuous and discrete limits. We review exact solution for the continuous model. Further, we discuss reliability of the solitonic solutions and argue that the envelope should propagate with a group velocity contrary to previous proposals.

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arXiv2019

Cho-Maison magnetic monopole: BPS limit and lower mass bound

We construct a class of effective extensions of the Standard Model that support finite-mass Cho-Maison magnetic monopole in the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) limit. We present an example of exact analytic monopole solution and derive a universal lower mass bound $M \geq 2πv/ g \approx 2.37\,\,\mathrm{TeV}$ of the Cho-Maison magnetic monopole.

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arXiv2019

Massless bosons on domain walls: Jackiw-Rebbi-like mechanism for bosonic fields

It is important to obtain (nearly) massless localized modes for the low-energy four-dimensional effective field theory in the brane-world scenario. We propose a mechanism for bosonic zero modes using the field-dependent kinetic function in the classical field theory set-up. As a particularly simple case, we consider a domain wall in five dimensions, and show that massless states for scalar (0-form), vector (1-form), and tensor (2-form) fields appear on a domain wall, which may be called topological because of robustness of their existence (insensitive to continuous deformations of parameters). The spin of localized massless bosons is selected by the shape of the nonlinear kinetic function, analogously to the chirality selection of fermion by the well-known Jackiw-Rebbi mechanism. Several explicitly solvable examples are given. We consider not only (anti)BPS domain walls in non-compact extra dimension but also non-BPS domain walls in compact extra dimension.

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arXiv2018

BPS Cho-Maison monopole

We present exact solutions to Cho-Maison magnetic monopole in a family of effective electroweak models that have a Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) limit. We find that the lower bound to the mass of the magnetic monopole is $M \geq 2πv/ g \approx 2.37\,\,\mathrm{TeV}$. We argue that this bound holds universally, not just in theories with a BPS limit.

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arXiv2018

Localization of the Standard Model via Higgs mechanism and a finite electroweak monopole from non-compact five dimensions

We propose a minimal and self-contained model in non-compact flat five dimensions which localizes the Standard Model (SM) on a domain wall. Localization of gauge fields is achieved by the condensation of Higgs field via a Higgs dependent gauge kinetic term in five-dimensional Lagrangian. The domain wall connecting vacua with unbroken gauge symmetry drives the Higgs condensation which provides both electroweak symmetry breaking and gauge field localization at the same time. Our model predicts higher-dimensional interactions $|H|^{2n}(F_{μν})^2$ in the low-energy effective theory. This leads to two expectations: The one is a new tree-level contribution to $H \to γγ$ ($H \to gg$) decay whose signature is testable in future LHC experiment. The other is a finite electroweak monopole which may be accessible to the MoEDAL experiment. Interactions of translational Nambu-Goldstone boson is shown to satisfy a low-energy theorem.

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arXiv2018

Classical corrections to black hole entropy in $d$ dimensions: a rear window to quantum gravity?

We provide a simple derivation of the corrections for Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole entropy without knowing the details of quantum gravity. We will follow Bekenstein, Wheeler and Jaynes ideas, using summations techniques without calculus approximations, to directly find logarithmic corrections to well-known entropy formula for black holes. Our approach is free from pathological behaviour giving negative entropy for small values of black hole mass $M$. With the aid of Universality principle we will argue that this purely classical approach could open a window for exploring properties of quantum gravity.

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