Survival of grand unified monopoles
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P. A. HorvΓ‘thy; J. H. Rawnsley
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Article
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1985
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Springer
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English
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If a grand unified theory with a compact group G is spontaneously broken to H, magnetic monopoles are created. The fate of such an H-monopole under a subsequent breaking to K c H is shown to depend on the behaviour of its non-Abelian charge Q introduced by Goddard, Nuyts, and Olive: if Q belongs to