Heterotic vortex strings

@article{Edalati2007HeteroticVS,
  title={Heterotic vortex strings},
  author={Mohammad Edalati and David Tong},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2007},
  volume={2007},
  pages={005-005}
}
We determine the low-energy = (0,2) worldsheet dynamics of vortex strings in a large class of non-Abelian = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories. 
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