The RP^2 Valued Sigma and Baby Skyrme Models

Abstract

We investigate the sigma and baby Skyrme models with an RP^2 target space. We compare these models to models with an S^2 target space. We investigate the interactions between solitons and defects in the RP^2 sigma model.

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