The effect of Skyrme--Chern-Simons dynamics on gauged Skyrmions in $2+1$ dimensions

Abstract

We study the Skyrmion of the $SO(2)$ gauged $O(3)$ sigma model in $2+1$ dimensions in the presence of a Skyrme--Chern-Simons (SCS) term, and compare its properties with the corresponding properties of the Skyrmion in the presence of the usual Chern-Simons (CS) term. We find that these properties are qualitatively largely similar in both cases, meaning that the SCS density can be employed as an alternative to the CS term also in higher dimensions, most importantly in even dimensions where no CS term is defined, $e.g.,$ in $3+1$ dimensions. The SCS density employed here is defined in terms of the pair of $SO(2)\times SO(2)$ gauge fields and an auxiliary $O(5)$ Skyrme scalar, which is contracted to an effective $O(3)$ Skyrme scalar. Technically, this study maps the methods to be applied in higher dimensional examples.

26 pages, 10 figures