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Cartan monopoles

2024/06/10 by Andrei Smilga, Smilga, Andrei
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.06042

openalex publication_date 2024/06/10 · openalex created_date 2024/06/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The effective Hamiltonians for chiral supersymmetric gauge theories at small spatial volume are generalizations of the Hamiltonians describing the motion of a scalar or a spinor particle in a field of Dirac monopoles (we are dealing in fact with a certain lattice of monopoles supplemented with a periodic singular potential). The gauge fields in such Hamiltonians belong to the Cartan subalgebras of the corresponding gauge algebras. Such a construction exists for all groups admitting complex representations, i.e. for SU(N ≥ 3), Spin(4n+2) with n ≥ 1 and E6. We give explicit expressions for these Hamiltonians for SU(3), SU(4) ≃ Spin(6) and for SU(5). The simplified version of such a Hamiltonian, deprived of fermion terms, of the extra scalar potential and when only one node of the lattice is taken into consideration, describe a 3r-dimensional motion (r being the rank of the group) in the field what we call a \it Cartan monopole. As is the case for the ordinary monopole, the Lagrangian of this system enjoys gauge symmetry, rotational symmetry, and the parameter, generalizing the notion of magnetic charge for Cartan monopoles, is quantized.

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