Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

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:

  1. N S Manton & P M Sutcliffe, "Topological Solitons", Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004.
  2. N M Romão, "Gauged vortices in a background",
    hep-th/0503014