A Generalized Construction for Lumps and Non-Abelian Vortices

Abstract

We construct the general vortex solution in a fully-Higgsed, color-flavor locked vacuum of a non-Abelian gauge theory, where the gauge group is taken to be the product of an arbitrary simple group and U(1), with a Fayet-Iliopoulos term. The strict correspondence between vortices and lumps in the associated Non-Linear Sigma-Model which arise in the limit of strong coupling is pointed out. The construction of the vortex moduli space is derived here as a consequence of this correspondence.

arXiv comment12 pages, no figures, Contribution to "Continuous Advances in QCD 2008", Minneapolis, May 2008