From Yang-Mills field to solitons and back again
Jan, 199913 pages
Part of From the Planck length to the Hubble radius. Proceedings, International School of Subnuclear Physics, Erice, Italy, August 29-September 7, 1998, 673-685
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- Subnucl.Ser. 36 (2000) 673-685
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Abstract:
Lecture delivered at XXXVI Summer School on Subnuclear Physics at Erice in September 1998. It contains a brief reflection on the development of QFT in late sixties and a discussion of the role of solitons in realistic field theoretic models.- talk: Erice
- field theory: history
- gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
- soliton
- quantum electrodynamics
- renormalization
- charge: topological
- sine-Gordon equation
- Skyrme model
- knot theory
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