BPS Skyrme Submodels of The Five Dimensional Skyrme Model

TL;DR

This paper explores BPS skyrmions in five-dimensional generalized Skyrme models, identifying new submodels with unique properties like topological degeneracy and non-zero pressures, using the BPS Lagrangian method.

Contribution

It introduces new BPS submodels in five-dimensional Skyrme models, analyzing their static solutions, energies, and topological features, including degenerate skyrmions and pressure characteristics.

Findings

Identified two spherically symmetric BPS submodels with distinct properties.

Discovered topological degeneracy among BPS skyrmions with charge >1.

Found non-zero pressures in certain BPS skyrmions.

Abstract

In this paper, we search for the BPS skyrmions in some BPS submodels of the generalized Skyrme model in five-dimensional spacetime using the BPS Lagrangian method. We focus on the static solutions of the Bogomolny's equations and their corresponding energies with topological charge $B>0$ is an integer. We consider two main cases based on the symmetry of the effective Lagrangian of the BPS submodels, i.e. the spherically symmetric and non-spherically symmetric cases. For the spherically symmetric case, we find two BPS submodels. The first BPS submodels consist of a potential term and a term proportional to the square of the topological current. The second BPS submodels consist of only the Skyrme term. The second BPS submodel has BPS skyrmions with the same topological charge $B>1$, but with different energies, that we shall call "topological degenerate" BPS skyrmions. It also has the usual BPS skyrmions with equal energies, if the topological charge is a prime number. Another interesting feature of the BPS skyrmions, with $B>1$, in this BPS submodel, is that these BPS skyrmions have non-zero pressures in the angular direction. For the non-spherically symmetric case, there is only one BPS submodel, which is similar to the first BPS submodel in the spherically symmetric case. We find that the BPS skyrmions depend on a constant $k$ and for a particular value of $k$ we obtain the BPS skyrmions of the first BPS submodel in the spherically symmetric case. The total static energy and the topological charge of these BPS skyrmions also depend on this constant. We also show that all the results found in this paper satisfy the full field equations of motions of the corresponding BPS submodels.