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8–12 Aug 2022
TRIUMF
America/Vancouver timezone

Fractional Skyrmions

12 Aug 2022, 11:50
40m
Auditorium (TRIUMF)

Auditorium

TRIUMF

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)

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