Vortices on Cylinders and Warped Exponential Networks

Kunal Gupta, Pietro Longhi

We study 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ $U(1)$ Chern-Simons-matter QFT on a cylinder $C\times \mathbb{R}$. The topology of $C$ gives rise to BPS sectors of low-energy solitons known as kinky vo…