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Higgsed antisymmetric tensors and topological defects

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We find topological defect solutions to the equations of motion of a generalised Higgs model with antisymmetric tensor fields. These solutions are direct higher dimensional analogues of the Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution for a gauge field in four dimensions.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9903159,
  title  = {Higgsed antisymmetric tensors and topological defects},
  author = {J. Troost},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9903159},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, final version