
It is shown that the homotopy classification of textures defined on physical domains with multiple ends at infinity reduces to that of textures on compact domains if the target space is simply connected. The result is applied to the O(3) sigma model on a cylinder, recently studied by Romao.
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topological solitons., Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences, FOS: Physical sciences, Mathematical Physics (math-ph), textures, Classification of homotopy type, Mathematical Physics, Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
topological solitons., Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences, FOS: Physical sciences, Mathematical Physics (math-ph), textures, Classification of homotopy type, Mathematical Physics, Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
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