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Phys. Rev. D 74, 085014 (2006) [6 pages]

Color Skyrmions in the quark-gluon plasma

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Jian Dai* and V. P. Nair
Physics Department, City College of the CUNY, New York, New York 10031, USA

Received 20 May 2006; published 12 October 2006

We consider the general formulation of non-Abelian fluid dynamics based on symmetry considerations. We point out that, quite generally, this admits solitonic excitations which are the color analog of Skyrmions. Some general properties of the solitons are discussed.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.085014
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.085014
PACS:
12.38.Mh, 11.10.Wx, 11.27.+d

*Electronic address: jdai@sci.ccny.cuny.edu

Electronic address: vpn@sci.ccny.cuny.edu