Magnetic Monopoles and Charged States in Four-dimensional, Abelian Lattice Gauge Theories

1986
8 pages
Published in:
  • EPL 2 (1986) 933-940

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Abstract: (IOP)
We construct physical states of arbitrary magnetic charge for the U(1)4 lattice gauge theory and electrically charged states for the four-dimensional, noncompact Abelian Higgs model, or spinor QED, in the massless QED phase of these models. We discuss the infraparticle structure of monopoles and charged particles and show that, in the continuum limit (if it exists), the Lorentz group cannot be implemented unitarily on charged sectors.
  • gauge field theory: U(1)
  • lattice field theory
  • Higgs model: abelian
  • postulated particle: magnetic monopole
  • duality
  • correlation function
  • group theory: Lorentz