Title: Stability of axisymmetric chiral skyrmions,
Abstract: We examine topological solitons in a minimal variational model for a chiral
magnet, so-called chiral skyrmions. In the regime of large background fields,
we prove linear stability of axisymmetric chiral skyrmions under arbitrary
perturbations in the energy space, a long-standing open question in physics
literature. Moreover, we show strict local minimality of axisymmetric chiral
skyrmions and nearby existence of moving soliton solution for the
Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation driven by a small spin transfer torque.