A magnetic bag is an abelian approximation to a large number of coincident SU(2) BPS monopoles. In this paper we consider magnetic bags in hyperbolic space and derive their Nahm transform from the large charge limit of the discrete Nahm equation for hyperbolic monopoles. An advantage of studying magnetic bags in hyperbolic space, rather than Euclidean space, is that a range of exact charge N hy...

We clarify the causal structure of an inflating magnetic monopole. We also discuss general nature of inflationary spacetimes. PACS number(s): 04.70.Bw, 14.80.Hv, 98.80.Cq Electronic address: [email protected] 1 For the last decade spacetime solutions of magnetic monopoles have been intensively studied in the literature [1–5]. This originated from the rather mathematical interest in sta...

Static, spherically symmetric monopole solutions of a spontaneously broken SU(2) gauge theory coupled to a massive dilaton field are studied in detail in function of the dilaton coupling strength and of the dilaton mass. corresponding author E-mail: [email protected] 1 In this paper we present some results on finite energy solutions in an SU(2) Yang-Mills (YM) and YM-Higgs (YMH) theory (with ...

We review the properties of BPS, or supersymmetric, magnetic monopoles, with an emphasis on their low-energy dynamics and their classical and quantum bound states. After an overview of magnetic monopoles, we discuss the BPS limit and its relation to supersymmetry. We then discuss the properties and construction of multimonopole solutions with a single nontrivial Higgs field. The low-energy dyna...

There has been a big effort in the past twenty years with at least a couple of generations of experiments which searched for supermassive GUT magnetic monopoles in the cosmic radiation. Here a short review of these searches is given, together with a brief description of the theoretical framework and of the detection techniques.

The quantization of the magnetic flux in superconducting rings is studied in the frame of a topological model of electromagnetism that gives a topological formulation of electric charge quantization. It turns out that the model also embodies a topological mechanism for the quantization of the magnetic flux with the same relation between the fundamental units of magnetic charge and flux as there...

We discuss string propagation in the near-horizon geometry generated by Neveu-Schwarz fivebranes, Kaluza-Klein monopoles and fundamental strings. When the fivebranes and KK monopoles are wrapped around a compact four-manifold M, the geometry is AdS3 ×S/ZZN ×M and the spacetime dynamics is expected to correspond to a local two dimensional conformal field theory. We determine the moduli space of ...

We consider interaction of a probe monopole-antimonopole pair in the vacuum of the Abelian Higgs model. For simplicity, the mass of the Higgs particle is assumed to be much larger than the mass of the photon (London limit). In case of a massive photon the straightforward application of the Zwanziger formalism to accommodate both magnetic and electric charges is known to result in gauge dependen...

We consider chiral condensates in SU(2) gauge theory with broken N= 2 super-symmetry. The matter sector contains an adjoint multiplet and one fundamental flavor. Matter and gaugino condensates are determined by integrating out the ad-joint field. The only nonperturbative input is the Affleck-Dine-Seiberg (ADS) super-potential generated by one instanton plus the Konishi anomaly. These results ar...

A model for the quantum effective description of the vacuum structure of thermalized SU(3) Yang-Mills theory is proposed. The model is based on Abelian projection leading to a Ginzburg-Landau theory for the magnetic sector. The possibility of topologically non-trivial, effective monopole fields in the deconfining phase is explored. These fields are assumed to be Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield s...