1999/03/31 by Kimyeong Lee · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Charge (physics) #Gauge symmetry #Gauge theory #Geometry #Higgs boson #Magnetic monopole #Massless particle #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #String (physics) #Symmetry (geometry) #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(99)00569-9
published as Phys.Lett. B458 (1999) 53-60 · 10 pages, LaTex file, more comments added. (To appear in Phys. Lett. B)
arxiv created 1999/05/12 · openalex publication_date 1999/07/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We investigate the role of massless magnetic monopoles in the N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills Higgs theories. They can appear naturally in the 1/4-BPS dyonic configurations associated with multi-pronged string configurations. Massless magnetic monopoles can carry nonabelian electric charge when their associated gauge symmetry is unbroken. Surprisingly, massless monopoles can also appear even when the gauge symmetry is broken to abelian subgroups.