nLab Nicholas Manton

Selected writings

On gauge-Higgs unification:

On the Schwinger effect:

On Yang-Mills monopoles:

On Skyrmions via rational maps from the complex plane, hence holomorphic functions from the Riemann sphere, to itself, as for Yang-Mills monopoles:

On constructing Skyrmions from instantons in D=5 Yang-Mills theory (hadron Kaluza-Klein theory):

On solitons:

On Skyrmion model for carbon nucleus:

On skyrmion models of atomic nuclei:

On patterns in the characteristic classes (Chern classes) of complex surfaces, together with some speculations about an anlogy with atomic number of atomic nuclei:

On Skyrmions in relation to chiral effective field theory:

On the Higgs field of the standard model of particle physics as being valued in P 2 \mathbb{C}P^2 (cf. P N \mathbb{C}P^N sigma model):

On nuclear scattering amplitudes via classical Skyrmions:

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