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A Skyrme lattice with hexagonal symmetry
Richard Battye, Paul Sutcliffe
Recently it has been found that the structure of Skyrmions has a close analogy to that of fullerene shells in carbon chemistry. In this letter we show that this analogy continues f…
SU(N) Monopoles and Platonic Symmetry
Conor Houghton, Paul Sutcliffe
We discuss the ADHMN construction for SU(N) monopoles and show that a particular simplification arises in studying charge N-1 monopoles with minimal symmetry breaking. Using this w…
BPS Monopoles
Paul Sutcliffe
We review classical BPS monopoles, their moduli spaces, twistor descriptions and dynamics. Particular emphasis is placed upon symmetric monopoles, where recent progress has been ma…
Rational Maps, Monopoles and Skyrmions
Conor Houghton, Nicholas Manton, Paul Sutcliffe
We discuss the similarities between BPS monopoles and Skyrmions, and point to an underlying connection in terms of rational maps between Riemann spheres. This involves the introduc…
Symmetric Skyrmions
Richard Battye, Paul Sutcliffe
We present candidates for the global minimum energy solitons of charge one to nine in the Skyrme model, generated using sophisticated numerical algorithms. Assuming the Skyrme mode…