Volume of a vortex and the Bradlow bound
Volume of a vortex and the Bradlow bound
We demonstrate that the geometric volume of a soliton coincides with the thermodynamical volume also for field theories with higher-dimensional vacuum manifolds (e.g., for gauged scalar field theories supporting vortices or monopoles), generalizing the recent results of Ref. [C. Adam, M. Haberichter, and A. Wereszczynski, Phys. Lett. B 754, 18 …