27.10.2010 (Wednesday)

Skyrmions, instantons and holography

Regular Seminar Paul Sutcliffe (Durham)

at:
14:00 IC
room H503
abstract:

Recently the Skyrme model has been derived from string theory in the context of holographic QCD. Inspired by this work, I shall introduce a BPS Skyrme model derived from Yang-Mills theory. This explains and extends the construction of Skyrmions from the holonomy of Yang-Mills instantons, introduced some time ago by Atiyah and Manton