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THE NUMBER OF SPHALERON INSTABILITIES OF THE BARTNIK-McKINNON SOLITONS AND NON-ABELIAN BLACK HOLES

M. S. Volkov, O. Brodbeck, G. Lavrelashvili, N. Straumann

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9502045

Abstract

It is proven that there are precisely n odd-parity sphaleron-like unstable modes of the n-th Bartnik-McKinnon soliton and the n-th non-abelian black hole solution of the Einstein-Yang-Mills theory for the gauge group SU(2).

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