Download or read book Formation and Interactions of Topological Defects written by Anne-Christine Davis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topological defects, the unavoidable result of many symmetry-breaking phase transitions, can reveal the properties of many condensed matter systems, may be responsible for seeding the density perturbations that developed into galaxies, and are of interest to mathematicians as non-trivial solutions o