On a stability property of Skyrme-related energy functionals

Abstract

We study the stability of critical maps from (or into) spheres with respect to the symplectic Dirichlet and ${\sigma }_2$ energies which are the fourth power terms in Skyrme type sigma-models.

10 pages, includes minor corrections; match the published version (Quart.J.Math.)

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• On the geometrized Skyrme and Faddeev models
• A special class of holomorphic mappings and the Faddeev-Hopf model