A common geometrical context for the instanton, the two-dimensional O(4) sigma model and the skyrmion

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/22/10/011MaRDI QIDQ3469944zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lewis H. Ryder

Publication date 1989

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/22/10/011

zbMATH Keywords

instantonChern classesmagnetic monopolewinding numbersWess-Zumino termskyrmion in four-dimensional spacetimetwo-dimensional O(4) sigma model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Degree, winding number (55M25) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90)

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