Examples of Embedded Defects ( in Particle Physics and Condensed Matter )

We present a series of examples designed to clarify the formalism of the companion paper ‘Embedded Vortices’. After summarising this formalism in a prescriptive sense, we run through several examples: firstly, deriving the embedded defect spectrum for Weinberg-Salam theory, then discussing several examples designed to illustrate facets of the formalism. We then calculate the embedded defect spectrum for three physical Grand Unified Theories and conclude with a discussion of vortices formed in the superfluid 3He-A phase transition. e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected]