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Knots in Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-04 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

After Dirac introduced the monopole, topological objects have played increasingly important roles in physics. In this review we discuss the role of the knot, the most sophisticated topological object in physics, and related topological objects in various areas in physics. In particular, we discuss how the knots appear in Maxwell's theory, Skyrme theory, and multi-component condensed matter physics.

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@article{arxiv.1803.08952,
  title  = {Knots in Physics},
  author = {Y. M. Cho and Seung Hun Oh and Pengming Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.08952},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1704.05975

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