Integrable Noncommutative Sine-Gordon Model

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new noncommutative version of the sine-Gordon model derived from a higher-dimensional integrable system, featuring multi-soliton solutions and a consistent factorizable S-matrix despite noncommutativity.

Contribution

It presents a novel noncommutative sine-Gordon model with a pair of scalar fields, constructed via a modified algebraic reduction and solved using the dressing method.

Findings

Constructed multi-soliton solutions using the dressing method.

Demonstrated the model has a factorizable, causal S-matrix.

Extended the sine-Gordon model to a noncommutative setting with new features.

Abstract

Requiring an infinite number of conserved local charges or the existence of an underlying linear system does not uniquely determine the Moyal deformation of 1+1 dimensional integrable field theories. As an example, the sine-Gordon model may be obtained by dimensional and algebraic reduction from 2+2 dimensional self-dual U(2) Yang-Mills through a 2+1 dimensional integrable U(2) sigma model, with some freedom in the noncommutative extension of this algebraic reduction. Relaxing the latter from U(2)->U(1) to U(2)->U(1)xU(1), we arrive at novel noncommutative sine-Gordon equations for a pair of scalar fields. The dressing method is employed to construct its multi-soliton solutions. Finally, we evaluate various tree-level amplitudes to demonstrate that our model possesses a factorizable and causal S-matrix in spite of its time-space noncommutativity.