Sphaleron solutions of the Skyrme model from Yang-Mills holonomy

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.05.013zbMATH Open1311.81185arXiv1305.1456OpenAlexW2073054835MaRDI QIDQ2345014FDOQ2345014

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 19 May 2015

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss how an approximation to the axially symmetric sphalerons in the Skyrme model can be constructed from the holonomy of a non-BPS Yang-Mills calorons. These configurations, both in the Skyrme model and in the Euclidean Yang-Mills theory, are characterized by two integers n and m, where n are the winding numbers of the constituents and the second integer m defines type of the solution, it has zero topological charge for even m and for odd values of m the corresponding chain has total topological charge n. It is found numerically that the holonomy of the chains of interpolating calorons--anticalorons provides a reasonably good approximation to the corresponding Skyrmion--antiSkyrmion chains when the topological charge of the Skyrmion constitutents is two times more than the Chern-Pontryagin index of the caloron.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1456

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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• Instantons and the buckyball
• Geometry and kinematics of two Skyrmions
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• Symmetric calorons
• Self-dual instanton and non-self-dual instanton-antiinstanton solutions in \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\) Yang-Mills theory
• Skyrmions from instantons at finite temperature
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• Holonomy and Skyrme's model
• Spherically symmetric solutions of the SU(N) Skyrme models
• Constrained instantons and kink-antikink collisions
• Hopf solitons from instanton holonomy
• Sphalerons in the Skyrme model
• Spherically symmetric solutions of the sixth order SU\((N)\) Skyrme models

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