On the Schwinger effect:
Ian Affleck, Nicholas Manton, Monopole pair production in a magnetic field, Nuclear Physics B Volume 194, Issue 1, (1982) Pages 38-64 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(82)90511-9
Ian Affleck, Orlando Alvarez, Nicholas Manton, Pair production at strong coupling in weak external fields, Nuclear Physics B Volume 197, Issue 3 (1982) Pages 509-519 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(82)90455-2)
(via worldline formalism)
On Skyrmions via rational maps from the complex plane, hence holomorphic functions from the Riemann sphere, to itself, as for Yang-Mills monopoles:
Conor J. Houghton, Nicholas Manton, Paul Sutcliffe, Rational Maps, Monopoles and Skyrmions, Nucl. Phys. B510 (1998) 507-537 (arXiv:hep-th/9705151, doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00619-6)
Nicholas S. Manton, Bernard M.A.G. Piette, Understanding Skyrmions using Rational Maps, in: Casacuberta C., Miró-Roig R.M., Verdera J., Xambó-Descamps S. (eds.) European Congress of Mathematics. Progress in Mathematics, vol 201. Birkhäuser, Basel. 2001 (doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-8268-2_27, arXiv:hep-th/0008110)
On constructing Skyrmions from instantons in D=5 Yang-Mills theory (hadron Kaluza-Klein theory):
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:
Richard A. Battye, Nicholas Manton, Paul Sutcliffe, Skyrmions and Nuclei, pp. 3-39 (2010) (doi:10.1142/9789814280709_0001) in: Mannque 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)
Nicholas Manton, Skyrmions – A Theory of Nuclei, World Scientific (2022) [doi:10.1142/q0368]
Nicholas Manton, Skyrmions as Models for Nuclei, Ischia (2022) [pdf]
On patterns in the characteristic classes (Chern classes) of complex surfaces, together with some speculations about an anlogy with atomic number of atomic nuclei:
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