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Sunspot-connected prominences as manifestation of a topological nontriviality of the spot Higgs vacuum within an Abelian Higgs model

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We demonstrate that aspot-connected prominence (filament) can simply be viewed as manifestation of anon-trivial topology of the spot's Higgs vacuum. It is conjectured that the spot-connected prominence forms in the region where thephase of the Higgs field, describing sunspot, has itsdiscontinuity. A conclusion is arrived at that two topologically different types of prominences associated with sunspots might exist; aone-arm prominence, entering the spot from one side only, and a two-arm one, which points towards the spot's center from two opposite directions and whose each arm carries a topological charge whose magnitude is one-half of that carried by the former.

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Saniga, M. Sunspot-connected prominences as manifestation of a topological nontriviality of the spot Higgs vacuum within an Abelian Higgs model. Astrophys Space Sci 197, 109–120 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00645076

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