Magnetic charge lattices, moduli spaces and fusion rules

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2008.08.003zbMATH Open1192.81344arXiv0803.3376OpenAlexW2097304415MaRDI QIDQ985754FDOQ985754

Authors: L. Kampmeijer, J. K. Slingerland, B. J. Schroers, F. Alexander Bais 

Publication date: 6 August 2010

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

Abstract: We analyze the set of magnetic charges carried by smooth BPS monopoles in Yang-Mills-Higgs theory with arbitrary gauge group G spontaneously broken to a subgroup H. The charges are restricted by a generalized Dirac quantization condition and by an inequality due to Murray. Geometrically, the set of allowed charges is a solid cone in the coroot lattice of G, which we call the Murray cone. We argue that magnetic charge sectors correspond to points in the Murray cone divided by the Weyl group of H; hence magnetic charge sectors are labelled by dominant integral weights of the dual group H*. We define generators of the Murray cone modulo Weyl group, and interpret the monopoles in the associated magnetic charge sectors as basic; monopoles in sectors with decomposable charges are interpreted as composite configurations. This interpretation is supported by the dimensionality of the moduli spaces associated to the magnetic charges and by classical fusion properties for smooth monopoles in particular cases. Throughout the paper we compare our findings with corresponding results for singular monopoles recently obtained by Kapustin and Witten.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3376

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zbMATH Keywords

dual gauge groupgenerating chargesmulti-monopole solutionsnon-Abelian monopolesparameter countingstratified moduli spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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