Non-Abelian Vortices of Higher Winding Numbers
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3 INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo, 3, Ed. C, 56127 Pisa, Italy 4 Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7, 56100 Pisa, Italy 5 Department of Physics, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521, JAPAN 6 Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo 152-8551, JAPAN 7 Theoretical Physics Laboratory, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, JAPAN
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