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Baby Skyrmions in AdS

Elliot-Ripley, Matthew, Winyard, Thomas (2015) Baby Skyrmions in AdS. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 (9). ISSN 1029-8479. (doi:10.1007/jhep09(2015)009) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:90659)

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Abstract

We study the baby Skyrme model in a pure AdS background without a mass term. The tail decays and scalings of massless radial solutions are demonstrated to take a similar form to those of the massive flat space model, with the AdS curvature playing a similar role to the flat space pion mass. We also numerically find minimal energy solutions for a range of higher topological charges and find that they form concentric ring-like solutions. Popcorn transitions (named in analogy with studies of toy models of holographic QCD) from an n layer to an n + 1-layer configuration are observed at topological charges 9 and 27 and further popcorn transitions for higher charges are predicted. Finally, a pointparticle approximation for the model is derived and used to successfully predict the ring structures and popcorn transitions for higher charge solitons.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/jhep09(2015)009
Uncontrolled keywords: Field Theories in Lower Dimensions; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Sigma Models
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics > QC20 Mathematical Physics
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Depositing User: Amy Boaler
Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2021 12:15 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 11:02 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/90659 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Winyard, Thomas.

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