2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/58068It is shown how the appearance of the 1-skyrmion on the three-sphere of radius L can be understood quantitatively by analyzing spectrum of the Hessian at the identity solution. Previously, this analysis was done qualitatively by N. Manton which used a conformal deformation of the identity solution.Manuscript for the proceedings of the Conference: "QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions" La Thuile, Italy, March 2005Mathematical Physicstext