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Magnetic impurity inspired Abelian Higgs vortices

  • Xiaosen Han1 nAff2 &
  • Yisong Yang3,4 

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Abstract

Inspired by magnetic impurity considerations some broad classes of Abelian Higgs and Chern-Simons-Higgs BPS vortex equations are derived and analyzed.

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  1. Institute of Contemporary Mathematics, School of Mathematics, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, 475004, P.R. China

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  2. Department of Mathematics, Tandon School, New York University, Brooklyn, New York, 11201, U.S.A.

    Yisong Yang

  3. NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University — Shanghai, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai, 200062, P.R. China

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Han, X., Yang, Y. Magnetic impurity inspired Abelian Higgs vortices. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 46 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)046

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  • Received: 27 October 2015

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Keywords

  • Field Theories in Lower Dimensions
  • Solitons
  • Monopoles, and Instantons
  • Chern-Simons Theories
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