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Gauging the SU(2) Skyrme model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

In this paper the SU(2) Skyrme model will be reformulated as a gauge theory and the hidden symmetry will be investigated and explored in the energy spectrum computation. To this end we purpose a new constraint conversion scheme, based on the symplectic framework with the introduction of Wess-Zumino (WZ) terms in an unambiguous way. It is a positive feature not present on the BFFT constraint conversion. The Dirac's procedure for the first-class constraints is employed to quantize this gauge invariant nonlinear system and the energy spectrum is computed. The finding out shows the power of the symplectic gauge-invariant formalism when compared with another constraint conversion procedures present on the literature.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0008070,
  title  = {Gauging the SU(2) Skyrme model},
  author = {J. Ananias Neto and C. Neves and W. Oliveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0008070},
  year   = {2009}
}

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revised version, to appear in Phys.Rev.D

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