2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/47304The spherically symmetric hedgehog ansatz used in the description of the skyrmion is believed to be inadequate for the rotational states such as the nucleon (I=J=1/2) and the Delta (I=J=3/2) due to centrifugal forces. We study here a simple alternative: an oblate spheroidal solution which leads to lower masses for these baryons. As one might expect, the shape of the solution is flatter as one increases I=J whether the size of the soliton is allowed to change or not.4 pages (REVTEX), no figures, To be published in the proceedings of A CRM-Fields-CAP Summer Workshop in Theoretical Physics: Solitons, Properties, Dynamics, Interactions and Applications, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 20-26 Jul 1997High Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext