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Toroidal Confugurations As Stable Solitons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-25 v1

Abstract

Previously we have proposed that in certain relativistic quantum field theories knotlike configurations may appear as stable solitons. Here we present a detailed investigation of the simplest knotted soliton, the torus-shaped unknot.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9705176,
  title  = {Toroidal Confugurations As Stable Solitons},
  author = {L. Faddeev and A. J. Niemi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9705176},
  year   = {2009}
}

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21 pages, 10 figures