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Axially symmetric SU(3) Gravitating Skyrmions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Axially symmetric gravitating multi-skyrmion configurations are obtained using the harmonic map ansatz introduced in [1]. In particular, the effect of gravity on the energy and baryon densities of the SU(3) non-gravitating multi-skyrmion configurations is studied in detail.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0407035,
  title  = {Axially symmetric SU(3) Gravitating Skyrmions},
  author = {Theodora Ioannidou and Burkhard Kleihaus and Wojtek Zakrzewski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0407035},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures