Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Conventions, notation, useful general formulas, abbreviations
- Between Standard Model Strings
- Introduction
- Part I Before supersymmetry
- 1 Phases of gauge theories
- 2 Kinks and domain walls
- 3 Vortices and flux tubes (strings)
- 4 Monopoles and Skyrmions
- 5 Instantons
- 6 Isotropic (anti)ferromagnet: 0(3) sigma model and extensions, including CP(N-1)
- 7 False-vacuum decay and related topics
- 8 Chiral anomaly
- 9 Confinement in 4D gauge theories and models in lower dimensions
- Part II Introduction to supersymmetry
- Index
- References
4 - Monopoles and Skyrmions
from Part I - Before supersymmetry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Conventions, notation, useful general formulas, abbreviations
- Between Standard Model Strings
- Introduction
- Part I Before supersymmetry
- 1 Phases of gauge theories
- 2 Kinks and domain walls
- 3 Vortices and flux tubes (strings)
- 4 Monopoles and Skyrmions
- 5 Instantons
- 6 Isotropic (anti)ferromagnet: 0(3) sigma model and extensions, including CP(N-1)
- 7 False-vacuum decay and related topics
- 8 Chiral anomaly
- 9 Confinement in 4D gauge theories and models in lower dimensions
- Part II Introduction to supersymmetry
- Index
- References
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