BPS center vortices in nonrelativistic \(S U(N)\) gauge models with adjoint Higgs fields (Q1683502)

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BPS center vortices in nonrelativistic \(S U(N)\) gauge models with adjoint Higgs fields
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    BPS center vortices in nonrelativistic \(S U(N)\) gauge models with adjoint Higgs fields (English)
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    1 December 2017
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    Summary: We propose a class of \(S U(N)\) Yang-Mills models, with adjoint Higgs fields, that accept BPS center vortex equations. The lack of a local magnetic flux that could serve as an energy bound is circumvented by including a new term in the energy functional. This term tends to align, in the Lie algebra, the magnetic field and one of the adjoint Higgs fields. Finally, a reduced set of equations for the center vortex profile functions is obtained (for \(N = 2,3\)). In particular, \(Z(3)\) BPS vortices come in three colours and three anticolours, obtained from an ansatz based on the defining representation and its conjugate.
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