29/06/2005, 14:00 — 15:00 — Sala P3.10, Pavilhão de Matemática
Nuno Romão, University of Adelaide
Gauged Vortices in a Background
I will discuss how a coupling to an external potential can be used to probe the interactions among gauged vortices on a sphere via symplectic localisation. I shall also illustrate how these results can be applied to statistical mechanics on the moduli space of vortices.
References:
- N S Manton & P M Sutcliffe, "Topological Solitons", Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004.
- N M Romão, "Gauged vortices in a background",
hep-th/0503014


