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Phys. Rev. D 80, 045005 (2009) [12 pages]

Vortices and superfields on a graph

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Nahomi Kan*
Yamaguchi Junior College, Hofu, Yamaguchi 747-1232, Japan

Koichiro Kobayashi and Kiyoshi Shiraishi
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi 753-8512, Japan

Received 15 January 2009; published 6 August 2009

We extend the dimensional deconstruction by utilizing the knowledge of graph theory. In the dimensional deconstruction, one uses the moose diagram to exhibit the structure of the “theory space.” We generalize the moose diagram to a general graph with oriented edges. In the present paper, we consider only the U(1) gauge symmetry. We also introduce supersymmetry into our model by use of superfields. We suppose that vector superfields reside at the vertices and chiral superfields at the edges of a given graph. Then we can consider multivector, multi-Higgs models. In our model, [U(1)]p (where p is the number of vertices) is broken to a single U(1). Therefore, for specific graphs, we get vortexlike classical solutions in our model. We show some examples of the graphs admitting the vortex solutions of simple structure as the Bogomolnyi solution.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.045005
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.045005
PACS:
11.10.Lm, 02.10.Ox, 11.27.+d, 11.30.Qc

*kan@yamaguchi-jc.ac.jp

m004wa@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp

shiraish@sci.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp