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Remarks on spherical monodromy defects for free scalar fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-04-27 v2

Abstract

The computation of the effect of a simple monodromy defect in the case of a sphere with twisted boundary conditions is revisited and streamlined using earlier calculations for a similar system. Compact and explicit expressions are found for arbitrary integer dimensions. Comments on other work are made.

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@article{arxiv.2104.09419,
  title  = {Remarks on spherical monodromy defects for free scalar fields},
  author = {J. S. Dowker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09419},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

9 pages. Text tidied, slips corrected. Comments, references and appendix on higher derivatives.added

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