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Continuous families of Z(2) monopoles in SU(4) Yang-Mills-Higgs theory

2022/08/30 by Paulo J. Liebgott, Liebgott, Paulo J., Eduardo E. Quadros +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2208.14265

openalex publication_date 2022/08/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We consider an SU(4) Yang-Mills-Higgs theory spontaneously broken to SO(4) by a scalar field in the n× n representation and the unbroken algebra invariant under Cartan automorphism. We obtain that \mathbb Z2 monopoles in this theory belong to different classes of su(2) embeddings associated to continuous families of up to four parameters. This result generalizes the discrete families of \mathbb Z2 monopoles previously known as well as it shows new classes of embeddings.

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