Solitons: Properties, Dynamics, Interactions, Applications

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Berry Phase and Dissipation of Topological Singularities....Pages 1-9
Normal Mode Spectra of Multi-Skyrmions....Pages 11-20
Standard-Model Dirac Particles Trapped in Flat (Noncompact) Higher Dimensions....Pages 21-25
Planar QED in Magnetic or Electric Solitonic Backgrounds....Pages 27-31
Collective Coordinates and Inequivalent Coset Space Quantizations....Pages 33-37
Spatial Solitons of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation of Arbitrary Nonlinearity with a Potential Hill....Pages 39-43
Hairs on the Unicorn: Fine Structure of Monopoles and Other Solitons....Pages 45-56
A Model for Partially Polarized Quantum Hall States....Pages 57-62
Ordering Dynamics of Topological Defect Networks....Pages 63-67
Gauge Theory Description of Spin Chains and Ladders....Pages 69-73
Soliton Solutions of the Integrable Chiral Model in (2+1) Dimensions....Pages 75-79
String Winding Modes From Charge Nonconservation in Compact Chern-Simons Theory....Pages 81-92
Holes in the Charge Density of Topological Solitons....Pages 93-97
From Two-dimensional Black Holes to sine-Gordon Solitons....Pages 99-106
Solitons and Exciton Superfluidity....Pages 107-113
Quantum Effects on Higgs Winding Configurations....Pages 115-118
Solitons and Their Moduli Spaces....Pages 119-130
Deformed Skyrmions....Pages 131-135
The Large- N c Renormalization Group....Pages 137-152
Instantons in Nonirreducible Representations of the Lorentz Group....Pages 153-157
Fermion Vacuum Effects on Soliton Stability....Pages 159-162
Soliton Solutions of the σ-Model and Disoriented Chiral Condensates....Pages 163-166
Dynamics of Topological Magnetic Solitons....Pages 167-181
Fun with Baby-Skyrmions....Pages 183-186
Skyrmions and Domain Walls....Pages 187-190
Fun with Electroweak Solitons....Pages 191-211
Neutral and Charged Spin Excitations in the Quantum Hall Ferromagnet....Pages 213-217
Quantum Corrections to Monopoles....Pages 219-223
Nonabelian Dyons....Pages 225-233
Electroweak Baryon Properties in Soliton Models....Pages 235-239
Solitons, Duality, and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories....Pages 241-251
Solitonic Strings and Knots....Pages 253-261
Toward a String Formulation of Vortex Dynamics....Pages 263-267
Domain Walls in a Chern-Simons Theory....Pages 269-272
Microphysics of Gauge Vortices and Baryogenesis....Pages 273-277
On a Dual Standard Model....Pages 279-286
From Skyrmions to the Nucleon-Nucleon Potential....Pages 287-293
Two-dimensional Solitons at Finite Temperature....Pages 295-307
Nontopological Structures in the Baby-Skyrme Model....Pages 309-312