To be or knot to be?
| dc.creator | Battye, Richard A. | |
| dc.creator | Sutcliffe, Paul M. | |
| dc.date | 1998-08-20 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:34:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:34:22Z | |
| dc.description | It has been suggested recently that knots might exist as stable soliton solutions in a simple three-dimensional classical field theory, opening up a wide range of possible applications in physics and beyond. We have re-examined and extended this work in some detail using a combination of analytic approximations and sophisticated numerical algorithms. For charges between one and eight, we find solutions which exhibit a rich and spectacular variety of phenomena, including stable toroidal solitons with twists, linked loops and also knots. The physical process which allows for this variety is the reconnection of string-like segments. | |
| dc.description | 7 pages plus 1 figure included in GIF format | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808129 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808129 | |
| dc.identifier | Phys.Rev.Lett.81:4798-4801,1998 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.4798 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/179453 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | To be or knot to be? | |
| dc.type | text |