The ’t Hooft–Polyakov monopole is absent in the Standard Model, yet Cho and Maison revealed that the electroweak sector admits a spherically symmetric magnetic monopole solution. The resulting Cho–Maison monopole exhibits unresolved theoretical issues, most notably an energy divergence at the spatial origin. In this work, we analyze a scenario in which a ’t Hooft–Polyakov monopole arising in a...
Confinement is one of the unresolved problems in modern physics. rgies. The analysis of confinement requires non-perturbative approaches due to asymptotic freedom. Supersymmetric gauge theories provide a powerful framework in which such non-perturbative analyses can be carried out. They are more tractable than their non-supersymmetric counterparts.In particular, the holomorphy of the...
In this talk, we propose a framework in which fields are labeled by basis elements of a fusion algebra with non-invertible fusion rules. In particular, we consider the case where fields are labeled by conjugacy classes of a finite group rather than its irreducible representations. When the fusion rules possess a Z2 symmetry identified with charge conjugation, a CPinvariant system can be...
