New developments in the quantization of supersymmetric solitons (kinks, vortices and monopoles)
| dc.creator | Rebhan, Anton | |
| dc.creator | van Nieuwenhuizen, Peter | |
| dc.creator | Wimmer, Robert | |
| dc.date | 2004-04-28 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:16:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:16:52Z | |
| dc.description | We discuss the one-loop quantum corrections to the mass M and central charge Z of supersymmetric solitons: the kink, the vortex and the monopole. Contrary to previous expectations and published results, in each of these cases there are nonvanishing quantum corrections to the mass. For the N=1 kink and the N=2 monopole a new anomaly in Z rescues BPS saturation (M=Z); for the N=2 vortex, BPS saturation is rescued for two reasons: (i) the quantum fluctuations of the Higgs field acquire a nontrivial phase due to the winding of the classical solution, and (ii) a fermionic zero mode used in the literature is shown not to be normalizable. | |
| dc.description | 15 pages, REVTEX4 style, 1 embedded postscript figure. Extended writeup of a talk given by P. van Nieuwenhuizen at the XXIV Brazilian National Meeting on Particles and Fields (Caxambu, Brazil, 30 Sep - 4 Oct 2003); to appear in the Brazilian Journal of Physics | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0404223 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0404223 | |
| dc.identifier | Braz.J.Phys. 34 (2004) 1273-1287 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/52530 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | New developments in the quantization of supersymmetric solitons (kinks, vortices and monopoles) | |
| dc.type | text |