The Faddeev knots as stable solitons: existence theorems

zbMath1087.35082MaRDI QIDQ1777540

Yisong Yang, Fang-Hua Lin

Publication date: 23 May 2005

Published in: Science in China. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

existenceenergy minimizerFaddeev solitons model Hopf invariantknotted soliton structureknotted solitonsleast-energy Faddeev solitonsublinear asymptotic energy estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational inequalities (49J40) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Soliton equations (35Q51) Homotopy groups of topological groups and homogeneous spaces (57T20)

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