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Intrinsically stable or “fundamental” solitons may be decorated with conserved charges which are pieces of those carried by elementary particles in the same medium. These “hairs” are always significant in principle, and in the strong-coupling regime (where solitons and particles exchange roles) they may become major factors in dynamics.
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Goldhaber, A.S. (2000). Hairs on the Unicorn: Fine Structure of Monopoles and Other Solitons. 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_7
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