Hyperons as collective excitations of chiral solitons

According to the large N-C limit of QCD baryons are considered as soliton s olutions in effective mesons theories. While the classical solitons dwell i n the isospin subgroup of flavor SU(3) hyperon states are generated by cano nical quantization of the collective coordinates which describe the flavor orientation of the soliton. The resulting Hamiltonian is diagonalized exact ly allowing one to discuss the dependence of various baryon properties on f lavor symmetry breaking. In particular axial charges, baryon magnetic momen ts and radiative decay widths are considered.