Static interactions of non-abelian vortices

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Auzzi, Roberto ^a   Eto, Minoru ^b,c   Vinci, Walter ^b,c  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nonperturbative effects; Solitons monopoles and instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903846829     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/100     Document Type: Article

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