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Solitons in General Relativity and Supergravity

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Abstract

In flat space physics we expect of a soliton or in Coleman’s famous phrase a “classical lump” that it be a

  1. a)

    time independent (static or stationary)

  2. b)

    finite (positive) energy

  3. c)

    non-singular

  4. d)

    classically and semi-classically stable solution of the classical equations of motion which frequently

  5. e)

    spatially interpolates between different vacua.

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    Francisco Claro Ph.D.

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Gibbons, G.W. (1985). Solitons in General Relativity and Supergravity. In: Claro, F. (eds) Nonlinear Phenomena in Physics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93289-2_10

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