HIDDEN SYMMETRY IN THE QUANTIZATION OF CHIRAL-FIELD SOLITONS

We consider the quantization of chiral solitons with baryon number B > 1. Classical solitons are obtained on the basis of a variational appro ach. From the form of the soliton solution, it can be seen that, in ad dition to the group of symmetry describing transformations of the conf iguration as a whole, there are additional symmetries corresponding to internal transformations. Taking into account the additional degrees of freedom leads to some sort of spin alignment for Light nuclei and y ields constraints on their spectra.