Solitons and Other Extended Field Configurations
Abstract
Article for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, to be published by Elsevier. Covers kinks & breathers, sigma-models & Skyrmions, abelian-Higgs vortices, monopoles, Yang-Mills instantons, and Q-balls.
- Publication:
-
arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- May 2005
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0505135
- Bibcode:
- 2005hep.th....5135W
- Keywords:
-
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 13 pages. Article for Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics