paper

First Are Last Fractional-Charge Solitons

arXiv:hep-th/9712192

Abstract

Jackiw and Rebbi found two types of intrinsically stable or `fundamental' soliton (kinks in 1+1 D and magnetic monopoles in 3+1 D) which can carry pieces of elementary-particle charges. After two decades there are no more, and it is argued here why that is inevitable.

10 pages, LATEX with no macros. Added discussion of another fundamental soliton, the magnetic vortex, explaining why it doesn't fractionate charge