Spectral Flow of Vortex Shape Modes over the BPS 2-Vortex Moduli Space Article Swipe

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A. Alonso-Izquierdo , W. Garcı́a Fuertes , N. S. Manton , J. Mateos Guilarte ·

YOU? · · 2023 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2310.17486 · OA: W4387994384

The flow of shape eigenmodes of the small fluctuation operator around BPS 2-vortex solutions is calculated, as a function of the intervortex separation $2d$. For the rotationally-invariant 2-vortex, with $d = 0$, there are three discrete modes; the lowest is non-degenerate and the upper two are degenerate. As $d$ increases, the degeneracy splits, with one eigenvalue increasing and entering the continuous spectrum, and the other decreasing and asymptotically coalescing with the lowest eigenvalue, where they jointly become the eigenvalue of the 1-vortex radial shape mode. The behaviour of the eigenvalues near $d=0$ is clarified using a perturbative analysis, and also in light of the 2-vortex moduli space geometry.