Monopoles and Knots in Skyrme Theory
Nuclear Theory
2011-07-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We show that the Skyrme theory actually is a theory of monopoles which allows a new type of solitons, the topological knots made of monopole-anti-monopole pair,which is different from the well-known skyrmions. Furthermore, we derive a generalized Skyrme action from the Yang-Mills action of QCD, which we propose to be an effective action of QCD in the infra-red limit. We discuss the physical implications of our results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0109060,
title = {Monopoles and Knots in Skyrme Theory},
author = {Y. M. Cho},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0109060},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
4 pages. Phys. Rev. Lett. in press