Lectures on (abelian) Chern-Simons vortices

Abstract

Various aspects including the construction and the symmetries of Abelian Chern-Simons vortices are reviewed. Extended version of the Lectures delivered at NIKHEF (Amsterdam), July 2006. Typos corrected, some refernces added.

51 pages, 9 figures. Lectures delivered at NIKHEF (Amsterdam), July 2006

References in corpus (1)

• Non-Abelian Chern-Simons Vortices

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