Extended Skyrme models in even dimensions and higher-dimensional solitons

✍ Scribed by Hiroshi Date; Kazuyuki Fujii; Hiroto So

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 242 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0377-9017
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00423446

✦ Synopsis

We propose a higher-dimensional soliton model -an extended Skyrme model -in an evendimensional spacetime. A hedgehog ansatz is also generalized to higher-dimensional cases and it is found that the soliton generally has the fermion number, i.e., the topological soliton.