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Dyon electric charge and fermion fractionalization

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

A first principles calculation of the quantum corrections to the electric charge of a dyon in an N=2 gauge theory with arbitrary gauge group is presented. These corrections arise from the fermion fields via the mechanism of fermion fractionalization. For a dyon whose magnetic charge is a non-simple co-root, the correction is a discontinuous function on the moduli space of vacua and the discontinuities occur precisely on co-dimension one curves on which the dyon decays. In this way, the complete spectrum of dyons at weak coupling is found for a theory with any gauge group. It is shown how this spectrum is consistent with the semi-classical monodromies.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9705041,
  title  = {Dyon electric charge and fermion fractionalization},
  author = {Timothy J. Hollowood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9705041},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, plain tex with macro included, 3 figures included using psfig