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A torsion-induced electric charge of the abelian higgs sunspot

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One demonstrates that the Abelian Higgs sunspot acquires a non-zeroelectric charge (as well as angular momentum) in the background of a curved space-time endowed with a constant, completely antisymmetrictorsion tensor. An ‘effective’ Lagrangian density is shown to contain a Chern-Simons-like term, and it leads to gauge-invariant equations of motion provided that one can neglect terms of the second order in a torsion's magnitude. The space-time torsion is also revealed to lock together the spot'selectric andmagnetic degrees of freedom.

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Saniga, M. A torsion-induced electric charge of the abelian higgs sunspot. Astrophys Space Sci 201, 47–51 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00626972

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