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Physical states of dyons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It is shown that physical states of a non-abelian Yang-Mills-Higgs dyon are invariant under large gauge transformations that do not commute with its magnetic field. This result is established within an enlarged Hamiltonian formalism where surface terms are kept as dynamical variables. These additional variables are parameters of large gauge transformations, and are potential collective coordinates for the quantization of the monopole. Our result implies that there are no physical effects associated to some large gauge transformations and therefore their parameters should not be counted as collective coordinates.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9707117,
  title  = {Physical states of dyons},
  author = {Marcos Alvarez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9707117},
  year   = {2007}
}

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