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SU(N) Skyrmions from Instantons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Atiyah and Manton have outlined a scheme to obtain approximations to the SU(2) skyrmions from instantons in R4\R^4. In this paper we apply this scheme to construct, in an explicit form, approximations to static spherically symmetric SU(N) skyrmions with various baryon numbers. In particular we show how to obtain the skyrmions from instantons using harmonic maps into complex projective spaces.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0004174,
  title  = {SU(N) Skyrmions from Instantons},
  author = {Theodora Ioannidou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0004174},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, to appear in Nonlinearity

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