Derrick's theorem beyond a potential

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Endlich, Solomon ^a   Hinterbichler, Kurt ^b   Hui, Lam ^a   Nicolis, Alberto ^a   Wang, Junpu ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Global symmetries; Sigma models; Solitons monopoles and instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961232540     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)073     Document Type: Article

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