Calorons, symmetry, and the soliton trinity
This thesis is concerned with calorons - finite-action, anti-self-dual connections over ¹ R³. We study three major topics: a review of the geometry of calorons, and their different construction techniques; the topic of symmetric calorons, that is, calorons invariant under various isometries; and the...
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University of Leeds
2018
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.758329 |