Two massive and one massless Sp(4) monopole

Journal Article · Tue Mar 31 23:00:00 EST 1998 · Physical Review, D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.57.5260· OSTI ID:601052

Lee, K; Lu, C ^[1]

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1. Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027 (United States)

Starting from Nahm{close_quote}s equations, we explore Bogomol{close_quote}nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) magnetic monopoles in the Yang-Mills-Higgs theory of the gauge group Sp(4), which is broken to SU(2){times}U(1). There exists a family of BPS field configurations with a purely Abelian magnetic charge that describes two identical massive monopoles and one massless monopole. We construct the field configurations with axial symmetry by employing the Atiyah-Drinfeld-Hitchin-Mannin-Nahm construction and find the explicit expression of the metrics for the 12-dimensional moduli space of Nahm data and its submanifolds. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}

• OSTI ID: 601052
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 57; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

66 PHYSICS
MAGNETIC MONOPOLES
MASSLESS PARTICLES
SP GROUPS
SU-2 GROUPS
SYMMETRY BREAKING
U-1 GROUPS
YANG-MILLS THEORY