Advent of Non-Abelian Vortices and Monopoles – further thoughts about duality and confinement
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Recent development on non-Abeliann vortices and monopoles is reviewed with an emphasis on their relevance on confinement and duality. A very recent construction of non-Abelian vortices which do not dynamically Abelianize is crucial in this context.
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