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Self-Dual Chern—Simons Solitons

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These lectures are devoted to the two-year old topic of Chern-Simons solitons. Solitons have interested particle theorists since the mid-1970’s[1]; Chern-Simons dynamics, since the early 1980’s [2]. Now in the decade of the 1990’s, we are combining the two subjects.

This work is supported in part by funds provided by the U. S. Department of Energy (D.O.E.) under contract #DE-AC02–76ER03069.

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Jackiw, R. (1992). Self-Dual Chern—Simons Solitons. In: Schmüdgen, K. (eds) Mathematical Physics X. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77303-7_15

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