- Accepted Paper
Non-Abelian vortices in gauge theory and noninvertible symmetries
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 1 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/bz2v-mls7
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 1 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/bz2v-mls7
We construct finite-tension non-Abelian vortex solutions in a renormalizable -dimensional gauge theory Higgsed to the tetrahedral group by a Higgs field in the spin-3 representation. Since the vacuum manifold is , the vortices are characterized by the non-Abelian fundamental group , the binary tetrahedral group. We obtain explicit axisymmetric vortex solutions carrying holonomies corresponding to the order-two and order-three conjugacy classes of , determine their tensions numerically, and show that they exhibit type-I, type-II, and Bogomol’nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield-like behavior depending on the Higgs and gauge boson mass ratios. The vortices are classified by conjugacy classes of , while their infrared descriptions are labeled by conjugacy classes of . We further demonstrate that the smooth finite-tension vortices reduce in the infrared to Gukov–Witten surface operators of the discrete gauge theory, thereby establishing a finite-energy ultraviolet completion of non-invertible defects in a renormalizable gauge-Higgs theory.
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