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Classifying Vortex Solutions to Gauge Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We classify the spectrum, family structure and stability of Nielsen-Olesen vortices embedded in a larger gauge group when the vacuum manifold is related to a symmetric space.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9904177,
  title  = {Classifying Vortex Solutions to Gauge Theories},
  author = {Nathan F. Lepora and T. W. B. Kibble},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9904177},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

26 Pages. Latex. To be published in Phys. Rev. D