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We study the self-gravitating Abrikosov vortex in curved space with and with-out a (negative) cosmological constant, considering both singular and non-singular solutions with an eye to hairy black holes. In the asymptotically flat case, we find that non-singular vortices round off the singularity of the point particle’s metric in 3 dimensions, whereas singular solutions consist of vortices holding a conical singularity at their core. There are no black hole vortex solutions. In the asymptotically AdS case, in addition to these solutions there exist singular solutions containing a BTZ black hole, but they are always hairless. So we find that in contrast with 4-dimensional ’t Hooft-Polyakov monopoles, which can be regarded as their higher-dimensional analogues, Abrikosov vortices cannot hold a black hole at their core. We also describe the implications of these results in the context of AdS/CFT and propose an interpretation for their CFT dual along the lines of the holographic superconductor.
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Albert, J. The Abrikosov vortex in curved space. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 12 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2021)012
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