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Instantons confined by monopole strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-03-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

It is known that monopoles can be confined by vortex-strings in d=3+1 while vortices can be confined by domain-lines in d=2+1. Here, as a higher dimensional generalization of these, we show that Yang-Mills instantons can be confined by monopole-strings in d=4+1. We achieve this by putting the system into the Higgs phase in which the configuration can be constructed inside a non-Abelian vortex sheet.

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@article{arxiv.1301.3268,
  title  = {Instantons confined by monopole strings},
  author = {Muneto Nitta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.3268},
  year   = {2013}
}

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15 pages, 2 figures, v2: published version

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