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Hopf Solitons on S3 and R3

R S Ward

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9811176

Abstract

The Skyrme-Faddeev system, a modified O(3) sigma model in three space dimensions, admits topological solitons with nonzero Hopf number. One may learn something about these solitons by considering the system on the 3-sphere of radius R. In particular, the Hopf map is a solution which is unstable for R > 2.

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