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Vortices which do not Abelianize dynamically: Semi-classical origin of non-Abelian monopoles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-08-23 v1

Abstract

After briefly reviewing the problems associated with non-Abelian monopoles, we turn our attention to the development in our understanding of non-Abelian {\it vortices} in the last several years. In the U(N) model with Nf=NN_{f}=N flavors in which they were first found, the fluctuations of the orientational modes along the vortex length and in time become strongly coupled at long distances. They effectively reduce to Abelian ANO vortices. We discuss then a very recent work on non-Abelian vortices with CPn1×CPr1CP^{n-1}\times CP^{r-1} orientational moduli, which, unlike the ones so far extensively studied, do not dynamically Abelianize completely. The surviving vortex orientational moduli, fluctuating along the vortex length and in time, gets absorbed by the monopoles at the ends, turning into the dual gauge degrees of freedom for the latter.

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@article{arxiv.0809.1374,
  title  = {Vortices which do not Abelianize dynamically: Semi-classical origin of non-Abelian monopoles},
  author = {Kenichi Konishi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.1374},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

14 pages. Contribution to "Continuous Advances in QCD 2008", Minneapolis, May 2008

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