Abstract
We present soliton and soliton-antisoliton solutions for the integrable chiral model in (2 + 1) dimensions with nontrivial (elastic) scattering. These solutions can be obtained either as the limiting cases of the ones already constructed by Ward or by adapting Uhlenbeck’s method.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
R. S. Ward, J. Math. Phys. 29 (1985), 386.
K. Uhlenbeck, J. Diff. Geom. 30 (1989), 1.
T. Ioannidou and W. J. Zakrzewski, Durham preprint, 1997.
T. Ioannidou, J. Math. Phys. 37 (1996), 3422.
R. S. Ward, Phys. Lett. A 208 (1995), 203.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2000 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this paper
Cite this paper
Ioannidou, T. (2000). Soliton Solutions of the Integrable Chiral Model in (2+1) Dimensions. In: MacKenzie, R., Paranjape, M.B., Zakrzewski, W.J. (eds) Solitons. CRM Series in Mathematical Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1254-6_11
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1254-6_11
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4612-7063-8
Online ISBN: 978-1-4612-1254-6
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive