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We study the scattering of vortices in the Abelian (2+1)-dimensional Higgs model. We show that in the case of the symmetric head-on collision of N vortices, their trajectories are rotated by the angle π/N after the collision.
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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 156, No. 1, pp. 77–91, July, 2008.
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Palvelev, R.V. Scattering of vortices in the Abelian Higgs model. Theor Math Phys 156, 1028–1040 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-008-0096-6
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