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These are notes of the first part of the lectures on topological solitons, presented on Baikal Summer School on Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics (July 2011). I review some of the basic properties of topological solitons on a simple model example of simple one-dimensional kink solution of the nonintegrable scalar ϕ4 model. I discuss both perturbative and non-perturbative sectors of the model, oscillon solution and resonance structures in the soliton collision.
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Shnir, Y.M. Topological solitons. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 9, 745–754 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477112070151
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