title: Monopoles and knots in skyrme theory.
abstract: We show that the Skyrme theory is actually a theory of monopoles which allows a new type of soliton, the topological knot made of the monopole-antimonopole pair, which is different from the well-known skyrmion. Furthermore, we derive a generalized Skyrme action from the Yang-Mills action of QCD, which we propose to be an effective action of QCD in the infrared limit. We discuss the physical implications of our results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea. ymcho@yongmin.snu.ac.kr
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Cho