Magnetic monopoles and fractional Witten indices
- 15 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 29 (12) , 2975-2976
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.29.2975
Abstract
The monopole-fermion system is shown to provide an example of a fractional Witten index. The discontinuity exhibited by the massless case is reminiscent of that for the invariant.
Keywords
This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
- Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Index TheoremProgress of Theoretical Physics, 1983
- Constraints on supersymmetry breakingNuclear Physics B, 1982
- Functional measure, topology and dynamical supersymmetry breakingPhysics Letters B, 1982
- Supersymmetry and functional integration measuresNuclear Physics B, 1980
- On a new characterization of scalar supersymmetric theoriesPhysics Letters B, 1980
- Parameter counting for multimonopole solutionsPhysical Review D, 1979
- Some remarks on the paper of CalliasCommunications in Mathematical Physics, 1978
- Axial anomalies and index theorems on open spacesCommunications in Mathematical Physics, 1978
- Dirac particle in a magnetic field: Symmetries and their breaking by monopole singularitiesPhysical Review D, 1977
- SO(4, 2)-Formulation of the Symmetry Breaking in Relativistic Kepler Problems with or without Magnetic ChargesJournal of Mathematical Physics, 1971