Constructing Non-Abelian Vortices with Arbitrary Gauge Groups

Eto, Minoru; Fujimori, Toshiaki; Gudnason, Sven Bjarke; Konishi, Kenichi; Nitta, Muneto; Ohashi, Keisuke; Vinci, Walter

Constructing Non-Abelian Vortices with Arbitrary Gauge Groups

Authors

Eto, Minoru

Fujimori, Toshiaki

Gudnason, Sven Bjarke

Description

We construct the general vortex solution in the fully-Higgsed, color-flavor locked vacuum of a non-Abelian gauge theory, where the gauge group is taken to be the product of an arbitrary simple group and U(1), with a Fayet-Iliopoulos term. The vortex moduli space is determined.
10 pages, no figures, v2: minor changes and typos corrected