Monopole-Skyrmions

TL;DR

This paper presents a numerical analysis of monopole-Skyrmion solutions in a combined gauge model, revealing bifurcation patterns and stability properties of the solutions.

Contribution

It introduces a systematic numerical study of classical solutions in a combined Georgi-Glashow and SO(3) gauged Skyrme model, highlighting topological stability and bifurcation phenomena.

Findings

Solutions exhibit interesting bifurcation patterns.

Some solution branches are unstable.

Gauging allows a lower energy bound and topological stability.

Abstract

A systematic numerical study of the classical solutions to the combined system consisting of the Georgi-Glashow model and the SO(3) gauged Skyrme model is presented. The gauging of the Skyrme system permits a lower bound on the energy, so that the solutions of the composite system can be topologically stable. The solutions feature some very interesting bifurcation patterns, and it is found that some branches of these solutions are unstable.