Quantization of Skyrmions and Rational Maps

por Steffen Krusch (University of Kent)

jueves 1 dic. 2005 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios (Dpto. de Física Teórica (UVEG))

The Skyrme model is a classical field theory which possesses localized solutions known as Skyrmions. When the Skyrme model is quantized these Skyrmions describe atomic nuclei. In my talk, I am going to explain how Rational Maps help to understand the classical minimal energy configurations in the Skyrme model, and how they simplify the calculation of the so-called Finkelstein-Rubinstein constraints which arise during quantization.