Static BPS 'monopoles' in all even spacetime dimensions
Journal Article
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· Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Department of Mathematical Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth (Ireland)
- School of Theoretical Physics-DIAS, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4 (Ireland)
Two families of SO(2n) Higgs models in 2n dimensional spacetimes are presented. The energies corresponding to the monopole solutions of all these models saturate the Bogomol'nyi bound. One of these families arises from the dimensional reduction of higher dimensional Yang-Mills systems while the generic models are constructed only with a view to saturating Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield monopole (BPS) bounds. The n=2 member of each family coincides with the usual SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs system without Higgs potential. All models support BPS 'monopole' solutions. While all the monopoles are BPS, only the 'dyons' of the dimensionally descended models are also BPS, the electrically charged solutions of the generic models not saturating a Bogomol'nyi bound.
- OSTI ID:
- 20709601
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 71; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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