title: Skyrmions from instantons inside domain walls.
abstract: Some years ago, Atiyah and Manton described a method to construct approximate Skyrmion solutions from Yang-Mills instantons. Here we present a dynamical realization of this construction using domain walls in a five-dimensional gauge theory. The non-Abelian gauge symmetry is broken in each vacuum but restored in the core of the domain wall, allowing instantons to nestle inside the wall. We show that the world volume dynamics of the wall is given by the Skyrme model, including the four-derivative term, and the instantons appear as domain wall Skyrmions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8551, Japan.
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eto
authors.forename: Muneto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nitta
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohashi
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tong