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A Nonabelian Particle-Vortex Duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-12-23 v3

Abstract

We define a nonabelian particle-vortex duality as a 33-dimensional analogue of the usual 22-dimensional worldsheet nonabelian T-duality. The transformation is defined in the presence of a global SU(2)SU(2) symmetry and, although derived from a string theoretic setting, we formulate it generally. We then apply it to so-called "semilocal strings" in an SU(2)G×U(1)LSU(2)_{G}\times U(1)_{L} gauge theory, originally discovered in the context of cosmic string physics.

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@article{arxiv.1506.04090,
  title  = {A Nonabelian Particle-Vortex Duality},
  author = {Jeff Murugan and Horatiu Nastase},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.04090},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, no figures; explicit example corrected, typos corrected

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