BPS Alice strings
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-09-15 v3
Abstract
When a charged particle encircles around an Alice string, it changes the sign of the electric charge. In this paper we find a BPS-saturated Alice string in gauge theory with charged complex scalar fields belonging to the vector representation. After performing BPS completion we solve the BPS equations numerically. We further embed the Alice string into an supersymmetric gauge theory to show that it is half BPS.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1703.08971,
title = {BPS Alice strings},
author = {Chandrasekhar Chatterjee and Muneto Nitta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08971},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
15 pages, 4 figures, minor typographical changes, references added