Half-monopoles and half-vortices in the Yang-Mills theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-10 v2 Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
It is demonstrated that there are smooth Yang-Mills potentials which correspond to monopoles and vortices of one-half winding number. They are the generic configurations, in contrast to the integral winding number configurations like the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0301045,
title = {Half-monopoles and half-vortices in the Yang-Mills theory},
author = {E. Harikumar and Indrajit Mitra and H. S. Sharatchandra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0301045},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures; references added