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Monopoles and Wilson Lines

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-18 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We present a semi-classical description of BPS monopoles interacting with Wilson lines. The Wilson lines are represented as non-Abelian spin impurities. These spins interact with the monopole degrees of freedom through a natural connection on the moduli space. We employ this technology in N = 2 SU(2) gauge theory to count the number of framed BPS states of a single monopole bound to Wilson lines in different representations.

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@article{arxiv.1401.6167,
  title  = {Monopoles and Wilson Lines},
  author = {David Tong and Kenny Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.6167},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

24 pages, 2 figures; v2: added angular momentum decomposition of bound states

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