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Self-gravitating kink solutions of a two-dimensional dilaton gravity are revisited in this work. Analytical kink solutions are derived from a concise superpotential formalism of the dynamical equations. A general analysis on the linear stability is conducted for an arbitrary static solution of the model. After gauge fixing, a Schrödinger-like equation with factorizable Hamiltonian operator is obtained, which ensures the linear stability of the solution.
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Zhong, Y. Revisit on two-dimensional self-gravitating kinks: superpotential formalism and linear stability. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 118 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2021)118
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