Gauge theory strings and minimal surfaces
Apr, 199330 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 420 (1994) 315-331
Report number:
- DAMTP-93-26
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
It is described how strings or vortices of some gauge theory models are related to minimal surfaces. The idea comes from a generalization of the trial orbit method for (1 + 1)-dimensional scalar field theory with topological kinks. A new kind of stable strings, analogous to the two component topological kink, is discovered and its mathematical and physical properties are discussed. A connection between the topology of the gauge systems with stable and unstable strings and the Morse theory of geodesics in spheres is suggested.- string model
- vortex
- gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
- Higgs model
- topology
- Morse theory
- Georgi-Glashow model
- dimension: 3
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