Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: It is shown that Abelian Higgs vortices on a hyperbolic surface M can be constructed geometrically from holomorphic maps f : M → N , where N is also a hyperbolic surface. The fields depend on f and on the metrics of M and N . The vortex centres are the ramification points, where the derivative of f vanishes. The magnitude of the Higgs field measures the extent to which f is locally an isometry. Witten's construction of vortices on the hyperbolic plane is rederived, and new examples of vortices on compact surfaces and on hyperbolic surfaces of revolution are obtained. The interpretation of these solutions as SO (3)-invariant, self-dual SU (2) Yang–Mills fields on is also given.
Authors: Nicholas S Manton, Norman A Rink
Institution: University of Cambridge
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Award: G7498563395
OpenAlex ID: W2022893582