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Nonabelian Bosonic Currents in Cosmic Strings
- Source :
- Phys.Rev.D82:023510,2010
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- A nonabelian generalization of the neutral Witten current-carrying string model is discussed in which the bosonic current-carrier belongs to a two dimensional representation of SU(2). We find that the current-carrying solutions can be of three different kinds: either the current spans a U(1) subgroup, and in which case one is left with an abelian current-carrying string, or the three currents are all lightlike, travelling in the same direction (only left or right movers). The third, genuinely nonabelian situation, cannot be handled within a cylindrically symmetric framework, but can be shown to depend on all possible string Lorentz invariant quantities that can be constructed out of the phase gradients.<br />Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Phys.Rev.D82:023510,2010
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1003.4601
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.023510