Platonic Gravitating Skyrmions
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
We construct globally regular gravitating Skyrmions, which possess only discrete symmetries. In particular, we present tetrahedral and cubic Skyrmions. The SU(2) Skyrme field is parametrized by an improved harmonic map ansatz. Consistency then requires also a restricted ansatz for the metric. The numerical solutions obtained within this approximation are compared to those obtained in dilaton gravity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0601103,
title = {Platonic Gravitating Skyrmions},
author = {Theodora Ioannidou and Burkhard Kleihaus and Jutta Kunz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0601103},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, 4 figures