Non-Abelian Vortices of Higher Winding Numbers

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.74.065021arXivhep-th/0607070MaRDI QIDQ6467902FDOQ6467902

Muneto Nitta, Keisuke Ohashi, Kenichi Konishi, Giacomo Marmorini, Walter Vinci, Naoto Yokoi, Minoru Eto

Publication date: 11 July 2006

Abstract: We make a detailed study of the moduli space of winding number two (k=2) axially symmetric vortices (or equivalently, of co-axial composite of two fundamental vortices), occurring in U(2) gauge theory with two flavors in the Higgs phase, recently discussed by Hashimoto-Tong (hep-th/0506022) and Auzzi-Shifman-Yung (hep-th/0511150). We find that it is a weighted projective space WCP^2_(2,1,1)=CP^2/Z_2. This manifold contains an A_1-type (Z_2) orbifold singularity even though the full moduli space including the relative position moduli is smooth. The SU(2) transformation properties of such vortices are studied. Our results are then generalized to U(N) gauge theory with N flavors, where the internal moduli space of k=2 axially symmetric vortices is found to be a weighted Grassmannian manifold. It contains singularities along a submanifold.

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