{
  "id": "1012.4057",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2010-12-18T04:15:51.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-03-01T02:05:21.000Z",
  "title": "Non-Abelian Monopoles in the Higgs Phase",
  "authors": [
    "Muneto Nitta",
    "Walter Vinci"
  ],
  "comment": "37 pages, no figures; v2: refs. added",
  "journal": "Nucl.Phys.B848:121-154,2011",
  "doi": "10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.02.014",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th",
    "hep-ph",
    "math-ph",
    "math.MP"
  ],
  "abstract": "We use the moduli matrix approach to study the moduli space of 1/4 BPS kinks supported by vortices in the Higgs phase of N = 2 supersymmetric U(N) gauge theories when non-zero masses for the matter hypermultiplets are introduced. We focus on the case of degenerate masses. In these special cases vortices acquire new orientational degrees of freedom, and become \"non-Abelian\". Kinks acquire new degrees of freedom too, and we will refer to them as \"non-Abelian\". As already noticed for the Abelian case, non-Abelian kinks must correspond to non-Abelian monopoles of the unbroken phase of SU(N) Yang-Mills. We show, in some special cases, that the moduli spaces of the two objects are in one-to-one correspondence. We argue that the corre- spondence holds in the most general case. The consequence of our result is two-fold. First, it gives an alternative way to construct non-Abelian monopoles, in addition to other well- known techniques (Nahm transform, spectral curves, rational maps). Second, it opens the way to the study of the quantum physics of non- Abelian monopoles, by considering the simpler non-Abelian kinks.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2011-03-01T02:05:21.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "higgs phase",
      "special cases vortices acquire",
      "moduli space",
      "construct non-abelian monopoles",
      "moduli matrix approach"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "Elsevier",
      "journal": "Nuclear Physics B",
      "year": 2011,
      "month": "Jul",
      "volume": 848,
      "number": 1,
      "pages": 121
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 37,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 881872,
      "adsabs": "2011NuPhB.848..121N"
    }
  }
}