Problems with quantizing the Skyrmion: A critical review

Abstract

We review the motivation and construction of the chiral soliton picture of baryons. We discuss the semi‐classical quantization procedure of Adkins, Nappi and Witten and the stability of the semi‐classical solution under the collective coordinate quantization. By studying the behavior in the chiral limit and specific numerical predictions, we conclude that the collective coordinate procedure is inadequate.