Journal of High Energy Physics (Sep 2024)

Analytic approach for computation of topological number of integrable vortex on torus

  • Kaoru Miyamoto,
  • Atsushi Nakamula

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2024)189
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 9
pp. 1 – 25

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Abstract Detailed structures of vortices on a torus are discovered by performing an analytic method to calculate the vortex number. We focus on analytic vortex solutions to the Chern-Simons-Higgs theory, whose governing equation is the so-called Jackiw-Pi equation. The equation is one of the integrable vortex equations and is reduced to Liouville’s equation. The requirement of continuity of the Higgs field strongly restricts the characteristics and the fundamental domain of the vortices. Also considered are the decompactification limits of the vortices on a torus, in which “flux loss” phenomena occasionally occur.

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