The Geometry of Point Particles

Details The Geometry of Point Particles The Geometry of Point Particles

2001-05-18

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0105179v2

Proc.Roy.Soc.Lond. A458 (2002) 1089-1116

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

32 pages, including 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1098/rspa.2001.0913

There is a very natural map from the configuration space of n distinct points in Euclidean 3-space into the flag manifold U(n)/U(1)^n, which is compatible with the action of the symmetric group. The map is well-defined for all configurations of points provided a certain conjecture holds, for which we provide numerical evidence. We propose some additional conjectures, which imply the first, and test these numerically. Motivated by the above map, we define a geometrical multi-particle energy function and compute the energy minimizing configurations for up to 32 particles. These configurations comprise the vertices of polyhedral structures which are dual to those found in a number of complicated physical theories, such as Skyrmions and fullerenes. Comparisons with 2-particle and 3-particle energy functions are made. The planar restriction and the generalization to hyperbolic 3-space are also investigated.

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