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Informationen zum Autor Erick J. Weinberg is Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics, Columbia University. Since 1996 he has been Editor of Physical Review D. His research interests include the implications of solitons and instantons for high-energy physics, cosmology and black holes, as well as a variety of other topics in quantum field theory. Klappentext An overview of classical solutions and their consequences in quantum field theory, high energy physics and cosmology for graduates and researchers. Zusammenfassung Written for advanced graduate students and researchers in elementary particle physics! cosmology and related fields! this book brings the reader up to the level of current research in the field. It discusses the most important classes of solitons: kinks! vortices and magnetic monopoles! as well as Euclidean solutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. One-dimensional solitons; 3. Solitons in more dimensions - vortices and strings; 4. Some topology; 5. Magnetic monopoles with U(1) charges; 6. Magnetic monopoles in larger gauge groups; 7. Cosmological implications and experimental bounds; 8. BPS solitons, supersymmetry, and duality; 9. Euclidean solutions; 10. Yang-Mills instantons; 11. Instantons, fermions, and physical consequences; 12. Vacuum decay; Appendixes; References; Index.
