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Half-monopoles and half-vortices in the Yang-Mills theory

E. Harikumar, Indrajit Mitra, H. S. Sharatchandra

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0301045

Abstract

It is demonstrated that there are smooth Yang-Mills potentials which correspond to monopoles and vortices of one-half winding number. They are the generic configurations, in contrast to the integral winding number configurations like the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole.

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