Staff profile
Overview
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Richard Ward
Professor Emeritus, Mathematical & Theoretical Particle Physics
FRS, DPhil University of Oxford
| Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Emeritus, Mathematical & Theoretical Particle Physics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences | MCS3026 | +44 (0) 191 33 43118 |
| Professor Emeritus, Mathematical & Theoretical Particle Physics in the Centre for Particle Theory | MCS3026 | +44 (0) 191 33 43118 |
Research interests
- mathematical physics
- nonlinear systems
Research groups
- Mathematical & Theoretical Particle Physics
Esteem Indicators
- 0000: 'Committee Duties': 'Member, EPSRC Peer College (1995-present)'
Publications
Authored book
- Hitchin, N.J., Segal, G.B. & Ward, R.S. (1999). Integrable systems: twistors, loop groups, and Riemann surfaces. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chapter in book
- Ward, R.S. (1998). Twistors, geometry and integrable systems. In The Geometric Universe: Science, Geometry, and the Work of Roger Penrose. Huggett, Stephen A., Mason, Lionel J., Tod, K. P., Tsou, Sheung & Woodhouse, N. M. J. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 99-108.
- Ward, R.S. (1994). Sigma models in 2+1 dimensions. In Harmonic maps and integrable systems. Fordy, Allan P. & Wood, John C. Braunschweig: F. Vieweg. 193-202.
Journal Article
- Ward, Richard (2021). Infinite-Parameter ADHM Transform. Quarterly Journal of Mathematics 72(1-2): haaa054, 407-415.
- Ward, R.S. (2018). Hopf solitons on compact manifolds. Journal of Mathematical Physics 59(2): 022904.
- Ward, R. S. (2016). Integrable (2k)-Dimensional Hitchin Equations. Letters in Mathematical Physics 106(7): 951-958.
- Ward, R.S. (2016). Symmetric Instantons and Discrete Hitchin Equations. Journal of Integrable Systems 1(1): xyw001.
- Ward, R. S. (2016). Geometry of Solutions of Hitchin Equations on R^2. Nonlinearity 29(3): 756.
- Maldonado, R. & Ward, R.S. (2014). Dynamics of monopole walls. Physics Letters B 734: 328-332.
- Maldonado, R. & Ward, R. S. (2013). Geometry of Periodic Monopoles. Physical Review D 88(12): 125013.
- Cherkis, S.A. & Ward, R.S. (2012). Moduli of monopole walls and amoebas. Journal of High Energy Physics 2012(5): 90.
- Silva Lobo, J. & Ward, R.S. (2011). Generalized Skyrme crystals. Physics Letters B 696(3): 283-287.
- Ward, R. S. (2011). Skyrmions and monopoles — isolated and arrayed. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 284(1): 012005.
- Harland, Derek & Ward, R.S. (2009). Dynamics of periodic monopoles. Physics Letters B 675(2): 262-266.
- Silva Lobo, J. & Ward, R.S. (2009). Skyrmion multi-walls. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 42(48): 482001.
- Harland, Derek & Ward, R.S. (2008). Chains of skyrmions. Journal of High Energy Physics 2008(12): 093.
- Harland, Derek & Ward, R.S. (2008). Walls and chains of planar skyrmions. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 77(4): 045009.
- Ward, R. S. (2007). Monopole wall. Physical Review D 75(2): 021701(R).
- Ward, R. S. (2006). Hopf solitons on the lattice. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 39(4): L105-L109.
- Ward, R.S. (2005). Periodic monopoles. Physics Letters B 619(1-2): 177-183.
- Piette, B. & Ward, R.S. (2005). Planar Skyrmions: vibrational modes and dynamics. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 201(1-2): 45-55.
- Ward, R.S. (2004). Skyrmions and Faddeev-Hopf solitons. Physical Review D 70(6): 061701 (4 pages).
- Ward, R.S. (2004). Planar Skyrmions at high and low density. Nonlinearity 17(3): 1033-1040.
- Ward, R.S. (2004). Symmetric calorons. Physics Letters B 582(3-4): 203-210.
- Ward, R.S. (2003). Topological Q-solitons. Journal of Mathematical Physics 44: 3555-3561.
- Ward, R.S. (2002). Stabilizing textures with magnetic fields. Physical Review D 66(4): 041701(R).
- Ward, R.S. (2002). Stability of sigma-model strings and textures. Classical and Quantum Gravity 19(4): L17-L22.
- Ward, R.S. (2001). Hopf solitons from instanton holonomy. Nonlinearity 14(6): 1543-1554.
- Kotecha, V. & Ward, R.S. (2001). Integrable Yang-Mills-Higgs equations in 3-dimensional de Sitter space-time. Journal of Mathematical Physics 42(3): 1018-1025.
- de Innocentis, M. & Ward, R.S. (2001). Skyrmions on the 2-sphere. Nonlinearity 14(3): 663-671.
- Ward, R. (2000). The interaction of two hopf solitons. Physics Letters B 473(3-4): 291-296.
- Ward, R.S. (1999). Two integrable systems related to hyperbolic monopoles. Asian Journal of Mathematics 3(1): 325-332.
- Ward, R. (1999). Lax pairs for integrable lattice systems. Journal of Mathematical Physics 40(1): 299-308.
- Ward, R. (1999). Hopf solitons on S3 and R3. Nonlinearity 12(2): 241-246.
- Ward, R.S. & Winn, A.E. (1998). Integrable systems admitting topological solitons. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 31(13): L261-L266.
- Ward, R.S. (1997). Bogomol'nyi Bounds for Two-Dimensional Lattice Systems. Communications in Mathematical Physics 184(2): 397-410.
- Ward, R.S. (1995). Stable topological Skyrmions on the 2D lattice. Letters in Mathematical Physics 35(4): 385-393.
- Ward, R.S. (1995). Discrete Toda field equations. Physics Letters A 199(1-2): 45-48.
- Ioannidou, T. & Ward, R.S. (1995). Conserved quantities for integrable chiral equations in 2+1 dimensions. Physics Letters A 208(3): 209-213.
- Ward, R.S. (1995). Nontrivial scattering of localized solitons in a (2+1)-dimensional integrable system. Physics Letters A 208(3): 203-208.
- Moorhouse, T. & Ward, R.S. (1994). Numerical twistor procedure for solving a non-linear field equation. Journal of Mathematical Physics 35(12): 6489-6497.
- Speight, J.M. & Ward, R.S. (1994). Kink dynamics in a novel discrete sine-Gordon system. Nonlinearity 1(2): 475-484.