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Nicholas Manton

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Selected writings

On gauge-Higgs unification:

• Nicholas Manton, A new six-dimensional approach to the Weinberg-Salam model, Nuclear Physics B Volume 158, Issue 1, 8 October 1979, Pages 141-153 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(79)90192-5)

On constructing Skyrmions from instantons:

• Michael Atiyah, Nicholas Manton, Skyrmions from instantons, Phys. Lett. B, 222(3):438–442, 1989 (doi:10.1016/0370-2693(89)90340-7)

On Skyrmion model for carbon nucleus:

• D. T. J. Feist, P. H. C. Lau, Nicholas Manton, Skyrmions up to Baryon Number 108 (arXiv:1210.1712)

• P.H.C. Lau, Nicholas Manton, States of Carbon-12 in the Skyrme Model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 232503 (2014) (arXiv:1408.6680)

On skyrmion models of atomic nuclei:

• R. A. Battye, Nicholas Manton, Paul Sutcliffe, Skyrmions and Nuclei, pp. 3-39 (2010) (doi:10.1142/9789814280709_0001) in: M. Rho, Ismail Zahed (eds.) The Multifaceted Skyrmion, World Scientific 2016 (doi:10.1142/9710)

• Nicholas Manton, Lightly Bound Skyrmions, Tetrahedra and Magic Numbers (arXiv:1707.04073)

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

• Michael Atiyah, Nicholas Manton, Complex Geometry of Nuclei and Atoms (arXiv:1609.02816)

Related $n$Lab entries

• Skyrmion

• instanton

• baryon

  meson, hadron

• atomic nucleus

• gauge-Higgs unification

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