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We discuss the properties of a solution of the Yang-Mills-Higgs system which can be thought of as a monopole "bead" on a (stable) string. Such beads appear in a wide class of models. Their existence implies that locally opposite directions on a Z₂ string are distinguishable in several important ways.
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Hindmarsh et al. (1985) studied this question.
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