Vortex-type half-BPS solitons in Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena theory

Journal Article · Sat Aug 15 04:00:00 EDT 2009 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.80.045013· OSTI ID:21322509

Kim, Chanju; Kim, Yoonbai; Kwon, O-Kab; Nakajima, Hiroaki ^[1]

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1. Institute for the Early Universe and Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea and Korea Institute for Advanced Study, 130-722 (Korea, Republic of)

We study the Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory without and with mass deformation. It is shown that maximally supersymmetry preserving, D-term, and F-term mass deformations of single mass parameter are equivalent. We obtain vortex-type half-BPS equations and the corresponding energy bound. For the undeformed ABJM theory, the resulting half-BPS equation is the same as that in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and no finite energy regular BPS solution is found. For the mass-deformed ABJM theory, the half-BPS equations for U(2)xU(2) case reduce to the vortex equation in Maxwell-Higgs theory, which supports static regular multivortex solutions. In U(N)xU(N) case with N>2 the non-Abelian vortex equation of Yang-Mills-Higgs theory is obtained.

• OSTI ID: 21322509
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 80; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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