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Morse Theory and Monopoles: Topology in Long Range Forces

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Progress in Gauge Field Theory

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSB,volume 115))

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Consider the t’Hooft-Polyakov monopole [1]. This is a static, finite energy solution to the evolution equations of a non-Abelian Higgs model with adjoint Higgs. For simplicity, take G = SU(2), but one could do a similar analysis for any group.

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The text of a lecture delivered at the 1983 Cargese NATO Summer School: Progress in Gauge Theories.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Clifford Henry Taubes

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  1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    G. ’t Hooft

  2. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    A. Jaffe

  3. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany

    H. Lehmann

  4. University of Paris VI, Paris, France

    P. K. Mitter

  5. University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    I. M. Singer

  6. Laboratory of Particle Physics, Annecy, France

    R. Stora

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Taubes, C.H. (1984). Morse Theory and Monopoles: Topology in Long Range Forces. In: ’t Hooft, G., Jaffe, A., Lehmann, H., Mitter, P.K., Singer, I.M., Stora, R. (eds) Progress in Gauge Field Theory. NATO ASI Series, vol 115. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0280-4_20

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