Composite Non-Abelian Strings with Grassmannian Models on the World Sheet

Abstract

Most of the non-Abelian string-vortices studied so far are characterized by two-dimensional \cpn models with various degrees of supersymmetry on their world sheet. We generalize this construction to "composite" non-Abelian strings supporting the Grassmann $\mathcal{G}(L,M)$ models (here $L+M=N$). The generalization is straightforward and provides, among other results, a simple and transparent way for counting the number of vacua in $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ Grassmannian model.

24 pages, 3 figures