Quantum deflation of classical extended objects

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that extended particle-like objects in certain models tend to infinitely collapse into discontinuous, massless configurations, with analytic insights into the process's properties and rates in 1+1 dimensions.

Contribution

It provides the first analytic analysis of the collapse dynamics of extended objects into massless discontinuous configurations in 1+1-dimensional soliton models.

Findings

Extended objects collapse into massless discontinuous configurations.

Analytic descriptions of the asymptotic collapse process.

Insights into the rates and properties of the collapse.

Abstract

It is shown, that extended particle-like objects should infinitely long collapse into some discontinuous configurations of the same topology, but vanishing mass. Analytic results concerning the general properties and asymptotic rates of such a process are given for 1+1-dimensional soliton models.