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Discrete baby and three-dimensional skyrmions

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We present a lattice version of the Skyrme model in 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions based on previously obtained results. The discrete skyrmions have a high degree of stability, similar to their continuum counterparts.

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  1. TAT, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    T. Ioannidou

  2. School of Mathematics, Physics, and Computational Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    T. Ioannidou

  3. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

    P. G. Kevrekidis

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Prepared from an English manuscript submitted by the authors; for the Russian version, see Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 160, No. 1, pp. 84–92, July, 2009.

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Ioannidou, T., Kevrekidis, P.G. Discrete baby and three-dimensional skyrmions. Theor Math Phys 160, 945–951 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-009-0084-5

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