An Appropriate Candidate for Exact Distribution of Closed Random Walks using Quantum Groups

We show that the structure of the quantum group $su_{q}(2)$ is intimately related to the random walks on a two dimentional lattice. Using this connection we obtain an appropriate candidate for the exact area distribution of closed random walks of length $N$ on a two dimensional square lattice. We compare our results with exact enumeration.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure

Baby Skyrme models for a class of potentials

We consider a class of (2+1) dimensional baby Skyrme models with potentials that have more than one vacum. These potentials are generalisation of old and new baby Skyrme models;they involve more complicated dependence on phi_3.We find that when the potential is invariant under phi_3 -> -phi_3 the configuration corresponding to the baby skyrmions lying "on top of each other" are the minima of the energy. However when the potential breaks this symmetry the lowest field configurations correspond to separated baby skyrmions. We compute the energy distributions for skyrmions of degrees between one and eight and discuss their geometrical shapes and binding energies. We also compare the 2-skyrmion states for these potentials. Most of our work has been performed numerically with the model being formulated in terms of three real scalar fields (satisfying one constraint).Comment: LaTeX, 14 pages, 10 figure