Dynamics of Euclideanized Einstein-Yang-Mills Systems With Arbitrary Gauge Groups

Abstract

We describe the dynamics of euclideanized SO(4)-symmetric Einstein-Yang-Mills (EYM) systems with arbitrary compact gauge groups [Formula: see text]. For the case of SO(n) and SU(n) gauge groups and simple embeddings of the isotropy group in [Formula: see text], we show that in the resulting dynamical system, the Friedmann equation decouples from the Yang-Mills equations. Furthermore, the latter can be reduced to a system of two second-order differential equations. This allows us to find a broad class of instanton (wormhole) solutions of the EYM equations. These solutions are not afflicted by the giant-wormhole catastrophe.

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