A Note on Dual Superconductivity and Confinement

Abstract

Electric self-dual vortices arising as BPS states in the strong coupling limit of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, softly broken to N=1, are reported.

9 pages, no figures. Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

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