Non-Abelian vortices on compact Riemann surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00220-009-0838-9zbMATH Open1186.58013arXiv0810.3220OpenAlexW2116707877MaRDI QIDQ1048115

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Publication date: 11 January 2010

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Abstract: We consider the vortex equations for a U(n) gauge field coupled to a Higgs field with values on the n times n square matrices. It is known that when these equations are defined on a compact Riemann surface, their moduli space of solutions is closely related to a moduli space of tau-stable holomorphic n-pairs on that surface. Using this fact and a local factorization result for the Higgs matrix, we show that the vortex solutions are entirely characterized by (1) the location in the surface of the zeros of the determinant of the Higgs matrix and (2) by the choice of a vortex internal structure at each of these zeros. We describe explicitly the vortex internal spaces and show that they are compact and connected spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3220

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