Higgsed antisymmetric tensors and topological defects

J. Troost (1)

1 LPTENS - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure]

We find topological defect solutions to the equations of motion of a generalised Higgs model with antisymmetric tensor fields. These solutions are direct higher dimensional analogues of the Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution for a gauge field in four dimensions.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Théorie [hep-th]

J. Troost. Higgsed antisymmetric tensors and topological defects. Physics Letters B, 1999, 458, pp.61. ⟨hal-00022291⟩