Related papers: Instantons in the non-linear sigma model
In the case of an invertible coordinate commutator matrix $\theta_{ij}$, we derive a general instanton solution of the noncommutative gauge theories on $d=2n$ planes given in terms of $n$ oscillators.
We derive gradient and energy estimates for critical points of the full supersymmetric sigma model and discuss several applications.
We derive a finite set of nonlinear integral equations for describing the finite size dependence of the ground state energy of the O(4) nonlinear sigma model. By modifying the kernel functions of these equations we propose nonlinear…
We review issues involved in understanding the vacuum, long-distance and low-energy structure of non-Abelian gauge theories and QCD. The emphasis will be on the role played by instantons.
Bukhvostov and Lipatov have shown that weakly interacting instantons and anti-instantons in the $O(3)$ non-linear sigma model in two dimensions are described by an exactly soluble model containing two coupled Dirac fermions. We propose an…
We present calculations of the size distribution of instantons in the 2d O(3) non-linear sigma-model, and briefly discuss the effects cooling has upon the configurations and the topological objects. (This preprint is also available via…
The pure-Skyrme limit of a scale-breaking Skyrmed O(3) sigma model in 1+1 dimensions is employed to study the effect of the Skyrme term on the semiclassical analysis of a field theory with instantons. The instantons of this model are…
The conditions under which a general two-dimensional non-linear sigma model is classically integrable are given. These requirements are found by demanding that the equations of motion of the theory are expressible as a zero curvature…
In this paper we study the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger-Maxwell equations (NSM). We are interested to analyse the existence of solitons, namely of finite energy solutions which exhibit stability properties. This paper is divided in two parts. In…
We present a direct derivation of the thermodynamic integral equations of the O(3) nonlinear $\sigma$-model in two dimensions.
This is a mini-review about generalized instantons of noncommutative gauge theories in dimensions 4, 6 and 8, with emphasis on their realizations in type II string theory, their geometric interpretations, and their applications to the…
We present general results on exponential decay of finite energy solutions to stationary nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations.
We derive new results about existence and uniqueness of local and global solutions for nonlinear Schrodinger equation, including self-similar global solutions. Our analysis is performed in the framework of Marcinkiewicz spaces.
We identify an infinite class of unbounded potentials for which the Coleman instantons do not exist in D-dimensional spacetime. For such potentials, the decay of a false vacuum is described by the new instantons introduced in [5,6,4]. For…
This paper is one step toward infinite energy gauge theory and the geometry of infinite dimensional moduli spaces. We generalize a gluing construction in the usual Yang-Mills gauge theory to an ``infinite energy'' situation. We show that we…
We study the relationship of soliton solutions for electron system with those of the sigma model on the noncommutative space, working directly in the operator formalism. We find that some soliton solutions of the sigma model are also the…
The configuration space of a non-linear sigma model is the space of maps from one manifold to another. This paper reviews the authors' work on non-linear sigma models with target a homogeneous space. It begins with a description of the…
We study how instantons arise in the low energy effective theory of the SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in the context of the non-linear sigma model recently propose by Faddeev and Niemi. We find a simple relation between the instanton number $\nu$…
We find classically stable solitons (instantons) in odd (even) dimensional scalar noncommutative field theories whose scalar potential, $V(\ph)$, has at least two minima. These solutions are bubbles of the false vacuum whose size is set by…
We propose nonlinear integral equations for the finite volume one-particle energies in the O(3) and O(4) nonlinear sigma-models. The equations are written in terms of a finite number of components and are therefore easier to solve…