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Nonabelian Monopoles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-29 v3

Abstract

We study topological as well as dynamical properties of BPS nonabelian magnetic monopoles of Goddard-Nuyts-Olive-Weinberg type in G=SU(N) G=SU(N), USp(2N)USp(2N) and SO(N) gauge theories, spontaneously broken to nonabelian subgroups HH. We find that monopoles transform under the group dual to HH in a tensor representation of rank determined by the corresponding element in π1(H)\pi_1(H). When the system is embedded in a N=2{\cal N}=2 supersymmetric theory with an appropriate set of flavors with appropriate bare masses, the BPS monopoles constructed semiclassically persist in the full quantum theory. This result supports the identification of ``dual quarks'' found at rr-vacua of N=2{\cal N}=2 theories with the nonabelian magnetic monopoles. We present several consistency checks of our monopole spectra.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0405070,
  title  = {Nonabelian Monopoles},
  author = {Roberto Auzzi and Stefano Bolognesi and Jarah Evslin and Kenichi Konishi and Hitoshi Murayama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0405070},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

48 pages, 2 figures, Latex, references added, minor corrections made