Dynamic Monopoles and Spacetime Structure

Abstract

According to previous work on magnetic monopoles, static regular solutions are nonexistent if the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field $\eta$ is larger than a critical value $\eta_{{\rm cr}}$, which is of the order of the Planck mass. In order to understand the properties of monopoles for $\eta>\eta_{{\rm cr}}$, we investigate their dynamics numerically and classify those dynamical solutions into three types as follows. If $\eta$ is larger than another critical value $\eta_{{\rm inf}}~(>\eta_{{\rm cr}})$, a monopole inflates and a wormhole structure appears around it. In the case of $\eta_{{\rm cr}}<\eta<\eta_{{\rm inf}}$, inflation does not occur and the dynamics depend on the ratio of the Higgs self coupling constant $\lambda$ and the gauge coupling constant $e^2$: if $\lambda/e^2\stackrel{<}{\sim}1$, a monopole just shrinks and becomes a black hole; otherwise, a monopole approaches a stable configuration.