Half-monopoles and half-vortices in the Yang-Mills theory

E. Harikumar; H. S. Sharatchandra; Indrajit Mitra

arxiv: hep-th/0301045 · v2 · submitted 2003-01-08 · ✦ hep-th · cond-mat· hep-lat

Half-monopoles and half-vortices in the Yang-Mills theory

E. Harikumar , Indrajit Mitra , H. S. Sharatchandra This is my paper

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It is demonstrated that there are smooth Yang-Mills potentials which correspond to monopoles and vortices of one-half winding number. They are the generic configurations, in contrast to the integral winding number configurations like the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole.

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