Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Useful General Formulas and Notation, Conventions, Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Before Supersymmetry
- 1 Phases of Gauge Theories
- 2 Kinks and DomainWalls
- 3 Vortices and Flux Tubes (Strings)
- 4 Monopoles and Skyrmions
- 5 Instantons
- 6 Isotropic (Anti)ferromagnet: O(3) Sigma Model and Extensions, Including CP(N ‒ 1)
- 7 False-Vacuum Decay and Related Topics
- 8 Chiral and Other Anomalies
- 9 Confinement in 4D Gauge Theories and Models in Lower Dimensions
- Part II Introduction to Supersymmetry
- Part III Solutions to Exercises
- Index
2 - Kinks and DomainWalls
from Part I - Before Supersymmetry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Useful General Formulas and Notation, Conventions, Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Before Supersymmetry
- 1 Phases of Gauge Theories
- 2 Kinks and DomainWalls
- 3 Vortices and Flux Tubes (Strings)
- 4 Monopoles and Skyrmions
- 5 Instantons
- 6 Isotropic (Anti)ferromagnet: O(3) Sigma Model and Extensions, Including CP(N ‒ 1)
- 7 False-Vacuum Decay and Related Topics
- 8 Chiral and Other Anomalies
- 9 Confinement in 4D Gauge Theories and Models in Lower Dimensions
- Part II Introduction to Supersymmetry
- Part III Solutions to Exercises
- Index
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- Advanced Topics in Quantum Field TheoryA Lecture Course, pp. 40 - 89Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022