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On a stability property of Skyrme-related energy functionals

Differential Geometry 2014-09-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the stability of critical maps from (or into) spheres with respect to the symplectic Dirichlet and σ2\sigma_2 energies which are the fourth power terms in Skyrme type sigma-models.

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@article{arxiv.1406.6240,
  title  = {On a stability property of Skyrme-related energy functionals},
  author = {Radu Slobodeanu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.6240},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

10 pages, includes minor corrections; match the published version (Quart.J.Math.)