Soliton (topological)

A topological soliton is a solution of a system of partial differential equations (or alternatively, a quantum field theory), not so much because of the nature of the PDEs themselves, but because of the boundary conditions entailing the existence of homotopically distinct solutions.

See also Bogomol'nyi Prasad Sommerfield bound.

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