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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2012
      August 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139017787
      9780521114639
      9781107438057
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      Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC
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      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.82kg, 342 Pages
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      (244 x 170 mm)
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      0.6kg, 342 Pages
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    Classical solutions play an important role in quantum field theory, high energy physics, and cosmology. Real-time soliton solutions give rise to particles, such as magnetic monopoles, and extended structures, such as domain walls and cosmic strings, which have implications for early universe cosmology. Imaginary-time Euclidean instantons are responsible for important nonperturbative effects, while Euclidean bounce solutions govern transitions between metastable states. Written for advanced graduate students and researchers in elementary particle physics, cosmology, and related fields, this book brings the reader up to the level of current research in the field. Its first half discusses the most important classes of solitons: kinks, vortices, and magnetic monopoles, and their cosmological and observational constraints. The second half is devoted to Euclidean solutions, with particular emphasis on Yang–Mills instantons and on bounce solutions. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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    'Through careful writing this monograph achieves much more than what has been published before and may be considered, in fact, a new and very important book.'

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    Contents

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    • Frontmatter
      pp i-vi
    • Dedication
      pp vii-vii
    • Frontmatter
      pp viii-viii
    • Contents
      pp ix-xii
    • Preface
      pp xiii-xiv
    • 1 - Introduction
      pp 1-5
    • 2 - One-dimensional solitons
      pp 6-37
    • 3 - Solitons in more dimensions—Vortices and strings
      pp 38-56
    • 4 - Some topology
      pp 57-80
    • 5 - Magnetic monopoles with U(1) charges
      pp 81-107
    • 6 - Magnetic monopoles in larger gauge groups
      pp 108-129
    • 7 - Cosmological implications and experimental bounds
      pp 130-148
    • 8 - BPS solitons, supersymmetry, and duality
      pp 149-174
    • 9 - Euclidean solutions
      pp 175-191
    • 10 - Yang–Mills instantons
      pp 192-235
    • 11 - Instantons, fermions, and physical consequences
      pp 236-253
    • 12 - Vacuum decay
      pp 254-294
    • Appendix A: - Roots and weights
      pp 295-304
    • Appendix B: - Index theorems for BPS solitons
      pp 305-311
    • References
      pp 312-323
    • Index
      pp 324-326

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