A Global Analog of Cheshire Charge

Abstract

It is shown that a model with a spontaneously broken global symmetry can support defects analogous to Alice strings, and a process analogous to Cheshire charge exchange can take place. A possible realization in superfluid He-3 is pointed out.

24 pages (figures 1-4 included as uu-encoded tar files), CALT-68-1865 (Revised version: an expression (eq. 17) for global charge density is corrected; some typos and sign mismatches are removed.)

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• Non-abelian vortices and non-abelian statistics
• Internal Frame Dragging and a Global Analog of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect
• Topological Approach to Alice Electrodynamics

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