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Neumann boundary condition for Abelian BPS vortices

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Manton, NS 
Zhao, Boan 

Abstract

jats:titleAjats:scbstract</jats:sc> </jats:title>jats:pWe study abelian BPS vortices on a surface jats:italicS</jats:italic> with boundary, which satisfy the Neumann boundary condition on the norm of the scalar field, or equivalently, that the current along the boundary vanishes. These vortices have quantised magnetic flux and quantised energy. Existence of such vortices is manifest when jats:italicS</jats:italic> is the quotient by a reflection of a smooth surface without boundary, for example a hemisphere. The jats:italicN</jats:italic>-vortex moduli space then admits an interesting stratification, depending on the number of vortices in the interior of jats:italicS</jats:italic> and the number of half-vortices on the boundary.</jats:p>

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Acknowledgements: We thank Claude Warnick and Zexing Li for helpful discussions on the Taubes equation. BZ is funded by a Trinity College, Cambridge internal graduate studentship.

Keywords

4902 Mathematical Physics, 5107 Particle and High Energy Physics, 49 Mathematical Sciences, 51 Physical Sciences

Journal Title

Journal of High Energy Physics

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Journal ISSN

1126-6708
1029-8479

Volume Title

2023

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC