Counting Yang-Mills dyons with index theorems

Mark Stern and Piljin Yi
Phys. Rev. D 62, 125006 – Published 20 November 2000
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Abstract

We count the supersymmetric bound states of many distinct BPS monopoles in N=4 Yang-Mills theories and in pure N=2 Yang-Mills theories. The novelty here is that we work in generic Coulombic vacua where more than one adjoint Higgs fields are turned on. The number of purely magnetic bound states is again found to be consistent with the electromagnetic duality of the N=4SU(n) theory, as expected. We also count dyons of generic electric charges, which correspond to 1/4 BPS dyons in N=4 theories and 1/2 BPS dyons in N=2 theories. Surprisingly, the degeneracy of dyons is typically much larger than would be accounted for by a single supermultiplet of appropriate angular momentum, implying many supermultiplets of the same charge and the same mass.

  • Received 20 June 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.125006

©2000 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Mark Stern*

  • Department of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706

Piljin Yi

  • School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study 207-43, Cheongryangri-Dong, Dongdaemun-Gu, Seoul 130-012, Korea

  • *Email address: stern@math.duke.edu
  • Email address: piljin@kias.re.kr

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Vol. 62, Iss. 12 — 15 December 2000

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