Geometry of gauged skyrmions

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2023.071MaRDI QIDQ6056589zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Josh Cork, Derek Harland

Publication date 30 October 2023

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02623

zbMATH Keywords

BPS equationsgauged skyrmionstopological solitons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

Abstract: A work of Manton showed how skymions may be viewed as maps between riemannian manifolds minimising an energy functional, with topologically non-trivial global minimisers given precisely by isometries. We consider a generalisation of this energy functional to gauged skyrmions, valid for arbitrary space and target 3-manifolds where the target is equipped with an isometric G-action. We show that the energy is bounded below by an equivariant version of the degree of a map, describe the associated BPS equations, and discuss and classify solutions in the cases where G=U(1) and G=SU(2).

Review text

The Skyrme model was intoduced in [\textit{J. K. Perring} and \textit{T. H. R. Skyrme}, Nuclear Phys. 31, 550--555 (1962; Zbl 0106.20105)]. In this model, baryons are described as topological solitons (skyrmions) and the baryon number is represented as a topological invariant. \textit{N. S. Manton} [Commun. Math. Phys. 111, 469--478 (1987; Zbl 0638.58029)] showed how to formulate the Skyrme model for maps between Riemannian manifolds. In the paper under review the author generalizes Manton's model to the setting of gauge theory. He studies Bogomolny-Prasad-Sommerfield equations (BPS equations) for gauged skyrmions and classifies solutions in the \(U(1)\)- and \(SU(2)\)-gauged case. Unlike ordinary skyrmions which are solutions of BPS equations when constant or isometries, in this case there are solutions which are neither constant nor isometries.

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