The RP² Valued Sigma and Baby Skyrme Models

2000/01/12 by Matthew D. E. Szyndel, Szyndel, Matthew D. E.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0001075

LaTeX 2e, 22 pages including 11 figures

arxiv created 2000/01/12 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We investigate the sigma and baby Skyrme models with an RP² target space. We compare these models to models with an S² target space. We investigate the interactions between solitons and defects in the RP² sigma model.

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