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