Knots as stable soliton solutions in a three-dimensional classical field theory

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4798-4801

  Battye, Richard A ^a   Sutcliffe, P M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 4243637183     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.4798     Document Type: Article

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