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In this paper we study massless fermions coupled to spherically symmetric SU(N) monopoles without Yukawa couplings between the Higgs and fermion fields. The corresponding Dirac operator is not Fredholm and the associated eigenfunctions are not L2-normalizable. Here we derive a formula for the dimension of the plane-wave normalizable kernel of such a Dirac operator for fermions of any representation of SU(N) in the presence of any spherically symmetric monopole background. Notably, our results also apply to fermions coupled to monopoles that preserve non-abelian gauge symmetry.
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Brennan, T.D. Index-like theorem for massless fermions in spherically symmetric monopole backgrounds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 95 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2022)095
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