(color online) Four flavors of triple-vortex merons. (a) Flavor with valley
and
: the unit vector
covers the upper hemisphere and displays a triple vortex meron-like configuration with associated topological charge
. (b) Flavor with valley
and
:
covers the lower hemisphere and displays a meron-like structure with
. (c) Flavor with valley
and
: the mapping
covers the upper hemisphere and displays a triple vortex anti-meron-like configuration with associated topological charge
. (d) Flavor with valley
and
:
covers the lower hemisphere and displays an anti-meron-like structure with
.
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