Half-monopoles and half-vortices in the Yang-Mills theory

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.

arXiv comment8 pages, 3 figures; references added

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