Wu and Yang obtain the following system of ordinary differential equations \begin{align} \frac{d\Phi}{d \xi} &= \psi\label{eq:20170625a}\\ \frac{d\psi}{d \xi} &= \psi + \Phi(\Phi^2-1)\label{eq:20170626a} \end{align}
Here \xi is given by r = e^{\xi}, with r the distance to the origin. The right-hand side of \eqref{eq:20170625a}-\eqref{eq:20170626a} defines the vector field (d\Phi/d\xi, d\psi/d\xi) in the (\Phi, \psi) plane. Its integral curves can be seen in the next figure
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The integral curves of the vector field defined by \eqref{eq:20170625a}-\eqref{eq:20170626a}. The stationary points are marked in red. |
solve_bvp
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The integral curves of the vector field defined by \eqref{eq:20170625a}-\eqref{eq:20170626a}. The integral curve from the stationary point (0,0) to (1,0) is added in red. |
Notice that if (\Phi(\xi),\psi(\xi) ) is a solution of \eqref{eq:20170625a}-\eqref{eq:20170626a}, then (\Phi(\xi- \xi_0),\psi(\xi-\xi_0) ) with \xi_0 a constant is also a solution. Translating to the r coordinate, this means that if \Phi(r) is a solution, the rescaled function \Phi(r/c) is also a solution. Wu and Yang provide a table with numerical results on the function \Phi(r) with asymptotic behaviour \Phi(r) = 1 - 1/r +O(1/r^2) for r \to \infty. The solution plotted above has \Phi(r) = 1 - c/r+O(1/r^2) for r \to \infty with c = 0.6233 [3]. If I rescale my solution with c, I get the following table.
\xi | r/c | \Phi(r/c) |
---|---|---|
5.066 | 9.880e+01 | 9.898e-01 |
2.866 | 1.095e+01 | 9.136e-01 |
1.666 | 3.297e+00 | 7.508e-01 |
0.566 | 1.098e+00 | 4.583e-01 |
-2.317 | 6.141e-02 | -9.229e-02 |
-5.954 | 1.617e-03 | 1.498e-02 |
-9.583 | 4.296e-05 | -2.442e-03 |
This agrees well with the results in Table 1 of Wu and Yang. I have not compared smaller values of r because I have approximated the infinite interval -\infty < \xi < + \infty by -12\le \xi \le 8.
References and comments
[1]
Wu and Yang, Some Solutions of the Classical Isotopic Gauge Field Equations, 1969
[2]
The Python code that I used can be found at this
link.
[3]
I have not estimated c from the asymptotic behaviour of the solution that I found, but I have taken c so that the difference between my solution and the one in Wu Yang is as small as possible.
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