Vacua, walls and junctions in $G_{N_F,N_C}$

Abstract

We discuss vacua, walls and three-pronged junctions of the mass-deformed nonlinear sigma models on the Grassmann manifold $G_{N_F,N_C}=\frac{SU(N_F)}{SU(N_C)\times SU(N_F-N_C)\times U(1)}$, which are non-Abelian gauge theories for $N_C\ge 2$. Polyhedra are proposed in \cite{Eto:2005cp} to describe Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield objects of the mass-deformed nonlinear sigma models on the complex projective space, which are Abelian gauge theories. We show that we can produce similar polyhedra for the mass-deformed nonlinear sigma models on the Grassmann manifold by applying the moduli matrix formalism \cite{Isozumi:2004jc} and the pictorial representation \cite{Lee:2017kaj}. Non-Abelian junctions can be analysed by making use of the polyhedra instead of the Plücker embedding. We present diagrams for vacua, walls and three-pronged junctions, and compute three-pronged junction positions of the mass-deformed nonlinear sigma models on the Grassmann manifold. We show that the results are consistent with the known results of \cite{Eto:2005fm}, which are worked out by using the Plücker embedding.

11 pages, 8 figures, version to appear in Nucl.Phys.B