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Gravitating Yang-Mills vortices in 4+1 spacetime dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The coupling to gravity in D=5 spacetime dimensions is considered for the particle-like and vortex-type solutions obtained by uplifting the D=4 Yang-Mills instantons and D=3 Yang-Mills-Higgs monopoles. It turns out that the particles become completely destroyed by gravity, while the vortices admit a rich spectrum of gravitating generalizations. Such vortex defects may be interesting in view of the AdS/CFT correspondence or in the context of the brane world scenario.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0103038,
  title  = {Gravitating Yang-Mills vortices in 4+1 spacetime dimensions},
  author = {Mikhail S. Volkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0103038},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

1 figure and 1 formula added; to appear in PLB