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Non-Abelian Vortices on Cylinder -- Duality between vortices and walls

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We investigate vortices on a cylinder in supersymmetric non-Abelian gauge theory with hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. We identify moduli space of periodic vortices and find that a pair of wall-like objects appears as the vortex moduli is varied. Usual domain walls also can be obtained from the single vortex on the cylinder by introducing a twisted boundary condition. We can understand these phenomena as a T-duality among D-brane configurations in type II superstring theories. Using this T-duality picture, we find a one-to-one correspondence between the moduli space of non-Abelian vortices and that of kinky D-brane configurations for domain walls.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0601181,
  title  = {Non-Abelian Vortices on Cylinder -- Duality between vortices and walls},
  author = {Minoru Eto and Toshiaki Fujimori and Youichi Isozumi and Muneto Nitta and Keisuke Ohashi and Kazutoshi Ohta and Norisuke Sakai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0601181},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

33 pages, 17 figures, v2: references added, typos corrected, the final version published in PRD