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   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeJan 24th 2019
   • (edited Jan 24th 2019)
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexchanged page name to singluar added mentioning of [[atomic number]] added pointer to * [[Michael Atiyah]], [[Nicholas Manton]], _Complex Geometry of Nuclei and Atoms_ ([arXiv:1609.02816](https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02816)) For a while I thought that this proposal is completely crazy. But in view of the established success of [[Skyrmion]] models for atomic nuclei and in particular with these viewed within the [[Sakai-Sugimoto model]], it doesn't seem completely crazy anymore. I still think it must be admitted that the concrete evidence that there is an actual model of nuclie by complex surfaces is extremely weak and very vague, but I can see now why it is interesting and maybe even tantalizing. <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/chemical+element/2">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/chemical+element/2">v2</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/chemical+element">current</a>

   changed page name to singluar

   added mentioning of atomic number

   added pointer to

   • Michael Atiyah, Nicholas Manton, Complex Geometry of Nuclei and Atoms (arXiv:1609.02816)

   For a while I thought that this proposal is completely crazy. But in view of the established success of Skyrmion models for atomic nuclei and in particular with these viewed within the Sakai-Sugimoto model, it doesn’t seem completely crazy anymore. I still think it must be admitted that the concrete evidence that there is an actual model of nuclie by complex surfaces is extremely weak and very vague, but I can see now why it is interesting and maybe even tantalizing.

   diff, v2, current