Properties of the Skyrme soliton configuration

Properties of the Euler–Lagrange differential equation for cos F, where F is the chiral angle of the classical Skyrme soliton in the hedgehog ansatz, are investigated. The power series solution for y=cos F, is obtained that presents the behavior of an almost geometric series, and the existence of single poles located at imaginary values of the radial variable r is shown. Pade approximants are built to the series expansion about the origin, and its terms are modified in order to incorporate the main features of the asymptotic behavior of the field configuration. Thus rational fractions are constructed which provide very good and practical analytical representations of the Skyrme soliton profile function.