Published February 15, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Z2 monopoles in SU(n) Yang-Mills-Higgs theories

  • 1. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Departamento de Fisica, CFM, Campus Universitario, Trindade, 88040-900, Florianopols (Brazil)

Description

Zn monopoles are important for the understanding of the Goddard-Nuyts-Olive duality when the scalar field is not in the adjoint representation. We analyze the Z2 monopole solutions in SU(n) Yang-Mills-Higgs theories spontaneously broken to Spin(n)/Z2 by a scalar in the nxn representation. We construct explicitly Z2 monopole asymptotic fields solutions for each of the weights of the defining representation of the dual algebra so(n)or.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 045007-045007.12
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42002495
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; DUALITY; HIGGS MODEL; MONOPOLES; SCALAR FIELDS; SPIN; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS; YANG-MILLS THEORY
Descriptors DEC
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; FUNCTIONS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; SYMMETRY GROUPS

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