====== Sphalerons ======

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Sphalerons are an important part of several proposed solutions of the [[open_problems:baryon_asymmetry_problem|Baryon asymmetry problem]] such as Leptogenesis.
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A sphaleron is a maximum of the energy functional in the direction of changing winding number, and a minimum in the orthogonal direction. Thus it is a saddle point. (page 336 in An introduction to gauge theories and modern particle physics by E. Leader and E. Predazzi.)

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The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//.
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