Speaker
Manu Paranjape
(Université de Montréal)
Description
We study Skrymion like configurations in the coset space SO(8)/SU(3). \Pi_3(SO(8)/SU(3))=Z_3, hence the Skyrmions have a sort of triality. We establish the existence of the Skyrmions and give some explicit configurations. We speculate as to their physical import.
Primary author
Manu Paranjape
(Université de Montréal)
Co-authors
Prof.
Gordon Semenoff
(UBC)
Prof.
Benedict Williams
(UBC)