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Knot Solitons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

The existence of ring-like and knotted solitons in O(3) non-linear sigma model is analysed. The role of isotopy of knots/links in classifying such solitons is pointed out. Appearance of torus knot solitons is seen.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9811171,
  title  = {Knot Solitons},
  author = {T R Govindarajan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9811171},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex 9 pages + 2 eps figures