Gauge Structures of SU(3) Skyrme Model, and Construction of SU(3) Generators Including Induced Gauge Field (Q4795706)

The authors of this very interesting paper study the \(SU(3)\) Skyrme-Witten baryon model with the embedded \(SU(2)\) soliton solution. The quantum mechanical aspects of this model are reconsidered from the viewpoint of the gauge structure induced on a curved manifold. The authors consider the quantum mechanics on the coset space \(SU(3)/U(1)\). The expected \(U(1)\) gauge field comes from Wess-Zumino-Witten term in the field theory of the \(SU(3)\) nonlinear \(\sigma \) model. The geometrical properties of the gauge field are fully examined. The \(SU(3)\) generators including the gauge field are shown to coincide with those constructed along a way similar to the \(SU(3)/U(1)\) case in accordance with Biedenharn's suggestion. Some concrete forms of the gauge field expressed in an eight-dimensional Euclidean space \(E^8\) are shown, the first of three components of which are the known gauge fields of a magnetic monopole in \(E^3\) with Dirac and Schwinger string singularities. The prescriptions and procedures which the authors discuss here are applicable to the coset \(SU(n)/U(1)\) case with \(n\geq 2\), in which some induced gauge field generally exists.