Half-monopoles and half-vortices in the Yang-Mills theory
Half-monopoles and half-vortices in the Yang-Mills theory
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2003-04-03
Authors
Harikumar, E.
Mitra, Indrajit
Sharatchandra, H. S.
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It is demonstrated that there are smooth Yang-Mills potentials which correspond to monopoles and vortices of one-half winding number. They are the generic configurations, in contrast to the integral winding number configurations like the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole. © 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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Monopole,
One-half winding number,
Poincaré-Hopf index
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Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics. v.557(3-4)