Solitons

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Berry Phase and Dissipation of Topological Singularities

   • Ping Ao, Xiao-Mei Zhu

   Pages 1-9

3. Normal Mode Spectra of Multi-Skyrmions

   • W. K. Baskerville, C. Barnes, N. G. Turok

   Pages 11-20

4. Standard-Model Dirac Particles Trapped in Flat (Noncompact) Higher Dimensions

   • Ronald Bryan

   Pages 21-25

5. Planar QED in Magnetic or Electric Solitonic Backgrounds

   • Gerald Dunne

   Pages 27-31

6. Collective Coordinates and Inequivalent Coset Space Quantizations

   • Juan Pedro Garrahan, Martín Kruczenski

   Pages 33-37

7. Spatial Solitons of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation of Arbitrary Nonlinearity with a Potential Hill

   • Boris V. Gisin

   Pages 39-43

8. Hairs on the Unicorn: Fine Structure of Monopoles and Other Solitons

   • Alfred S. Goldhaber

   Pages 45-56

9. A Model for Partially Polarized Quantum Hall States

   • T. H. Hansson, U. Nilsson

   Pages 57-62

10. Ordering Dynamics of Topological Defect Networks

    • Mark Hindmarsh

    Pages 63-67

11. Gauge Theory Description of Spin Chains and Ladders

    • Yutaka Hosotani

    Pages 69-73

12. Soliton Solutions of the Integrable Chiral Model in (2+1) Dimensions

    • Theodora Ioannidou

    Pages 75-79

13. String Winding Modes From Charge Nonconservation in Compact Chern-Simons Theory

    • Ian I. Kogan

    Pages 81-92

14. Holes in the Charge Density of Topological Solitons

    • M. Kugler

    Pages 93-97

15. From Two-dimensional Black Holes to sine-Gordon Solitons

    • J. Gegenberg, G. Kunstatter

    Pages 99-106

16. Solitons and Exciton Superfluidity

    • I. Loutsenko, D. Roubtsov

    Pages 107-113

17. Quantum Effects on Higgs Winding Configurations

    • Arthur Lue

    Pages 115-118

18. Solitons and Their Moduli Spaces

    • N. S. Manton

    Pages 119-130

19. Deformed Skyrmions

    • L. Marleau

    Pages 131-135

20. The Large-N _c Renormalization Group

    • Nicholas Dorey, Michael P. Mattis

    Pages 137-152

Solitons were discovered by John Scott Russel in 1834, and have interested scientists and mathematicians ever since. They have been the subject of a large body of research in a wide variety of fields of physics and mathematics, not to mention engineering and other branches of science such as biology. This volume comprises the written versions of the talks presented at a workshop held at Queen's University in 1997, an interdisciplinary meeting wherein top researchers from many fields could meet, interact, and exchange ideas. Topics covered include mathematical and numerical aspects of solitons, as well as applications of solitons to nuclear and particle physics, cosmology, and condensed-matter physics. The book should be of interest to researchers in any field in which solitons are encountered.

• Baryon
• Gauge theory
• Nonlinear differential equations
• Particle Physics
• Potential
• Renormalization group
• Solutions

• Département de physique Laboratoire René J. A. Lévesque, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

  R. MacKenzie, M. B. Paranjape

• Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, Durham, UK

  W. J. Zakrzewski

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