arXiv:hep-th/0301045·v2·High Energy Physics — Theory
Half-monopoles and half-vortices in the Yang-Mills theory
E. Harikumar🇮🇳 · Indrajit Mitra🇮🇳 · H. S. Sharatchandra🇮🇳
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.
Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures; references added