Abstract
We discuss magnetic monopoles in gauge theories with Wilson loops on orbifolds. We present a simple example in 5 dimensions with the fifth dimension compactified on an S 1/ Z 2 orbifold. The Wilson loop in this SO(3) example replaces the adjoint Higgs scalar (needed to break SO(3) to U(1)) in the well-known 't Hooft–Polyakov construction. Our solution is a magnetic monopole string with finite energy, and length equal to the size of the extra dimension.
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