MASS DEGENERACIES IN SELF-DUAL MODELS

An algebraic restriction of the nonabelian self-dual Chem-Simons-Higgs systems leads to coupled abelian models with interesting mass spectra. The vacua are characterized by embeddings of SU(2) into the gauge algebra, and in the broken phases the gauge and real scalar masses coincide, reflecting the relation of these self-dual models to N = 2 SUSY. The masses themselves are related to the exponents of the gauge algebra, and the self-duality equation is a deformation of the classical Toda equations.