Nonabelian Bosonic Currents in Cosmic Strings

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.

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