Hairs on the Unicorn: Fine Structure of Monopoles and Other Solitons

Abstract

Intrinsically stable or `fundamental' solitons may be decorated with conserved charges which are pieces of those carried by elementary particles in the same medium. These `hairs' are always significant in principle, and in the strong-coupling regime (where solitons and particles exchange roles) may become major factors in dynamics.

15 pages, LATEX with no macros, To appear in Proceedings of the CRM-FIELDS-CAP Workshop "Solitons" at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, July 1997 (Springer, New York 1998)