Nonabelian Vortices on Surfaces and Their Statistics
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We discuss the physics of topological vortices moving on an arbitrary surface M in a Yang-Mills-Higgs theory in which the gauge group G breaks to a finite subgroup H. We concentrate on the case where M is compact and/or nonorientable. Interesting new features arise which have no analog on the plane. The consequences for the quantum statistics of vortices are discussed, particularly when H is nonabelian.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9701056,
title = {Nonabelian Vortices on Surfaces and Their Statistics},
author = {Lee Brekke and Sterrett J. Collins and Tom D. Imbo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9701056},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
27 pages, 6 figures, requires harvmac