Published February 1996 | Version v1
Journal article

Relating U(1) monopole configurations to SU(2) saddle-point configurations

Creators

  • 1. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics

Description

We have studied field configurations of the 3-dimensional Georgi-Glashow model which interpolate between the U(1) and the SU(2) limits. In the intermediate region, these configurations contain 't-Hooft-Polyakov monopoles. We use cooling and extremization to find these configurations and investigate their evolution as we adiabatically move towards the U(1) and the SU(2) limits. We also evolve an SU(2) saddle point solution towards the U(1) limit to see the relation between the unstable solutions in the SU(2) theory and the stable ones in the U(1) theory. (orig.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
53
Journal Page Range
p. 500-502.
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
14. international symposium on lattice field theory (Lattice-14).
Dates
4-8 Jun 1996.
Place
St. Louis, MO (United States).