BPS Alice strings

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2017)046MaRDI QIDQ1705936zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Chandrasekhar Chatterjee, Muneto Nitta

Publication date 19 March 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08971

zbMATH Keywords

gauge symmetrysolitons monopoles and instantonsspontaneous symmetry breakingsupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Soliton equations (35Q51) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: When a charged particle encircles around an Alice string, it changes the sign of the electric charge. In this paper we find a BPS-saturated Alice string in $U(1)imesSO(3)$ gauge theory with charged complex scalar fields belonging to the vector representation. After performing BPS completion we solve the BPS equations numerically. We further embed the Alice string into an $calN=1$ supersymmetric gauge theory to show that it is half BPS.

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