Non-abelian vortices on surfaces and their statistics

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00409-4zbMATH Open0934.81069arXivhep-th/9701056MaRDI QIDQ1362734FDOQ1362734

Authors: Lee Brekke, Sterrett J. Collins, Tom D. Imbo 

Publication date: 6 August 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the physics of topological vortices moving on an arbitrary surface M in a Yang-Mills-Higgs theory in which the gauge group G breaks to a finite subgroup H. We concentrate on the case where M is compact and/or nonorientable. Interesting new features arise which have no analog on the plane. The consequences for the quantum statistics of vortices are discussed, particularly when H is nonabelian.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9701056

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zbMATH Keywords

nonorientable surfaceYang-Mills-Higgs theoryfinite subgrouptopological vortices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25)

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