  The characteristic feature of the ground state configuration of the Skyrme
model description of nuclei is the absence of recognizable individual nucleons.
The ground state of the skyrmion with baryon number 2 is axially symmetric, and
is well approximated by a simple rational map, which represents a direct
generalization of Skyrme's hedgehog ansatz for the nucleon. If the Lagrangian
density is canonically quantized this configuration may support excitations
that lie close and possible below the threshold for pion decay, and therefore
describe dibaryons. The quantum corrections stabilize these solutions, the mass
density of which have the correct exponential fall off at large distances.
