Zero modes and degrees of freedom of topological solitons on the plane

Includes bibliographical references. === In this thesis we analyse the coaxial multivortices of the Ginzburg-Landau, the Euclidean complex sine-Gordon-1 and -2 theories on the plane. More specifically, we determine the number of continuous free parameters describing the largest family of solutions,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, Rory Montague
Other Authors: Barashenkov, I V
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13891