Helical buckling of Skyrme-Faddeev solitons
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✦ hep-th
math-phmath.MP
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solitonsbucklingmodelskyrme-faddeevcircumferenceconjectureelasticfield
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Solitons in the Skyrme-Faddeev model on R^2xS^1 are shown to undergo buckling transitions as the circumference of the S^1 is varied. These results support a recent conjecture that solitons in this field theory are well-described by a much simpler model of elastic rods.
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