  In connection with the possibility of skyrmion production from small domain
disoriented chiral condensates formation from heavy ion collisions, the direct
relation of a classical skyrmion to baryon states is examined. It is argued
that a skyrmion is a coherent state of baryons. The collective coordinate
approach of quantization means that the physical baryon states exist not in
flat space but on a compact manifold. This requires the construction of
coherent states in such a curve space. Using the techniques associated with the
Segal-Bargmann transform also known as the coherent state transform used for
example in the study of the classical limit of quantum gravity, such states can
be constructed in the context of the Skyrme model. They are made up directly of
baryon states on S^3 but with quantum operators on the SO(3) manifold. In terms
of wavefunctions, they are a superposition of the analytic baryon wavefunctions
of Adkins, Nappi and Witten. The distribution of the baryon states in terms of
the relative probabilities of the baryons inside a skyrmion can therefore be
determined.
