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A review of some recent work on the collective coordinate approach to perturbation expansion about soliton solutions is presented. Consistent formulation of the method in framework of the Feynman path integral quantization procedure is described. As an illustrative application we discuss in detail a perturbation expansion for scattering of solitons.
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Jevicki, A. (1977). Path Integral Quantization of Solitons. In: Perlmutter, A., Scott, L.F. (eds) The Significance of Nonlinearity in the Natural Sciences. Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7224-0_2
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