TY - JOUR
T1 - Studying boojums in N=2 theory with walls and vortices
AU - Auzzi, R.
AU - Shifman, M.
AU - Yung, A.
PY - 2005/7/15
Y1 - 2005/7/15
N2 - We study 1/2 Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) domain walls, 1/2 BPS flux tubes (strings), and their 1/4 BPS junctions. We consider the simplest example of N=2 Abelian gauge theory with two charged matter hypermultiplets which contains all of the above-listed extended objects. In particular, we focus on string-wall junctions (boojums) and calculate their energy. It turns out to be logarithmically divergent in the infrared domain. We compute this energy first in the (2+1)-dimensional effective theory on the domain wall and then, as a check, obtain the same result from the point of view of (3+1)-dimensional bulk theory. Next, we study interactions of boojums considering all possible geometries of string-wall junctions and directions of the string magnetic fluxes.
AB - We study 1/2 Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) domain walls, 1/2 BPS flux tubes (strings), and their 1/4 BPS junctions. We consider the simplest example of N=2 Abelian gauge theory with two charged matter hypermultiplets which contains all of the above-listed extended objects. In particular, we focus on string-wall junctions (boojums) and calculate their energy. It turns out to be logarithmically divergent in the infrared domain. We compute this energy first in the (2+1)-dimensional effective theory on the domain wall and then, as a check, obtain the same result from the point of view of (3+1)-dimensional bulk theory. Next, we study interactions of boojums considering all possible geometries of string-wall junctions and directions of the string magnetic fluxes.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.025002
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.025002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33749158697
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 72
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 2
M1 - 025002
ER -