Nicholas Manton, Paul Sutcliffe

Topological Solitons

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Topological solitons occur in many nonlinear classical field theories. They are stable, particle-like objects, with finite mass and a smooth structure. Examples are monopoles and Skyrmions, Ginzburg-Landau vortices and sigma-model lumps, and Yang-Mills instantons. This book is a comprehensive survey of static topological solitons and their dynamical interactions. Particular emphasis is placed on the solitons which satisfy first-order Bogomolny equations. For these, the soliton dynamics can be investigated by finding the geodesics on the moduli space of static multi-soliton solutions. Remarkable scattering processes can be understood this way. The book starts with an introduction to classical field theory, and a survey of several mathematical techniques useful for understanding many types of topological soliton. Subsequent chapters explore key examples of solitons in one, two, three and four dimensions. The final chapter discusses the unstable sphaleron solutions which exist in several field theories.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 915g
• ISBN-13: 9780521040969
• ISBN-10: 0521040965
• Artikelnr.: 23105469

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Manton received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1978. Following postdoctoral positions at the Ecole Normale in Paris, M.I.T. and UC Santa Barbara, he returned to Cambridge and is now Professor of Mathematical Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and currently head of the department's High Energy Physics group. He is a Fellow of St John's College. He introduced and helped develop the method of modelling topological soliton dynamics by geodesic motion on soliton moduli spaces.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Lagrangians and fields; 3. Topology in field theory; 4. Solitons - general theory; 5. Kinks; 6. Lumps and rational maps; 7. Vortices; 8. Monopoles; 9. Skyrmions; 10. Instantons; 11. Saddle points - sphalerons; References; Index.

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Preface
1. Introduction
2. Lagrangians and fields
3. Topology in field theory
4. Solitons - general theory
5. Kinks
6. Lumps and rational maps
7. Vortices
8. Monopoles
9. Skyrmions
10. Instantons
11. Saddle points - sphalerons
References
Index.

Rezensionen

'The authors are two of the most prominent in the field and have made many seminal contributions to it.' Contemporary Physics