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  title info:
    title: Selfdual Gauge Field Vortices
    sub title: An Analytical Approach
  name:
    name part: Tarantello, Gabriella.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 325 p. online resource.
  abstract: In modern theoretical physics, gauge field theories are of great importance since they keep internal symmetries and account for phenomena such as spontaneous symmetry breaking, the quantum Hall effect, charge fractionalization, superconductivity and supergravity. This monograph discusses specific examples of gauge field theories that exhibit a selfdual structure. The author builds a foundation for gauge theory and selfdual vortices by introducing the basic mathematical language of the subject and formulating examples ranging from the well-known abelian–Higgs and Yang–Mills models to the Chern–Simons–Higgs theories (in both the abelian and non-abelian settings). Thereafter, the electroweak theory and self-gravitating electroweak strings are also examined, followed by the study of the differential problems that have emerged from the analysis of selfdual vortex configurations; in this regard the author treats elliptic problems involving exponential non-linearities, also in relation to concentration-compactness principles and blow-up analysis. Many open questions still remain in the field and are examined in this comprehensive work in connection with Liouville-type equations and systems. The goal of this text is to form an understanding of selfdual solutions arising in a variety of physical contexts. Selfdual Gauge Field Vortices: An Analytical Approach is ideal for graduate students and researchers interested in partial differential equations and mathematical physics.
  table of contents: Selfdual Gauge Field Theories -- Elliptic Problems in the Study of Selfdual Vortex Configurations -- Planar Selfdual Chern–Simons Vortices -- Periodic Selfdual Chern–Simons Vortices -- The Analysis of Liouville-Type Equations With Singular Sources -- Mean Field Equations of Liouville-Type -- Selfdual Electroweak Vortices and Strings.
  note: by Gabriella Tarantello.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Partial differential equations
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics, general
  subject:
    topic: Partial Differential Equations
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
  classification: QC1-75
  classification: 530
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications ; 72
  identifier: 9780817646080
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4608-0
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