The shapes of Dirichlet defects

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1761-1777

  Bowick, Mark ^a   De Felice, Antonio ^a   Trodden, Mark ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044497745     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/067     Document Type: Article

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