To be or knot to be?

Details To be or knot to be? To be or knot to be?

1998-08-20

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808129v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.81:4798-4801,1998

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

7 pages plus 1 figure included in GIF format

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.4798

It has been suggested recently that knots might exist as stable soliton solutions in a simple three-dimensional classical field theory, opening up a wide range of possible applications in physics and beyond. We have re-examined and extended this work in some detail using a combination of analytic approximations and sophisticated numerical algorithms. For charges between one and eight, we find solutions which exhibit a rich and spectacular variety of phenomena, including stable toroidal solitons with twists, linked loops and also knots. The physical process which allows for this variety is the reconnection of string-like segments.

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