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On a core instability of 't Hooft Polyakov monopoles

F. A. Bais, J. Striet

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0205152

Abstract

We discuss a core instability of 't Hooft Polyakov monopoles in Alice electrodynamics type of models in which charge conjugation symmetry is gauged. The monopole may deform into a toroidal defect which carries an Alice flux and a (non-localizable) magnetic Cheshire charge.

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