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An index for confined monopoles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-06-12 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We compute the index and associated spectral density for fluctuation operators which are defined via the Lagrangian of N=2 SQCD in the background of non-abelian confined multimonopoles. To this end we generalize the standard index calculations of Callias and Weinberg to the case of asymptotically nontrivial backgrounds. The resulting index is determined by topological charges. We conjecture that this index counts one quarter of the dimension of the moduli space of confined multimonopoles.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1111.1728,
  title  = {An index for confined monopoles},
  author = {Robert Wimmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1728},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

30 + 7 pages, 1 figure, typos corrected

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