Short-Range Binding of Rotor Solitons and the Origin of the Strong Force

Within the Rotor Dynamics Framework the vacuum is modeled as a four-dimensional rotor manifold governed by the nonlinear Rotor Field Equation. Previous work established that particles correspond to localized soliton solutions of the rotor curvature field. In this paper the short-range binding between nucleon solitons is analyzed and identified as the geometric origin of the strong interaction. When two nucleon solitons approach within the scale of their nonlinear curvature cores, their curvature fields overlap and reorganize into a shared curvature domain that lowers the total curvature energy of the system. This nonlinear reconfiguration generates an effective interaction potential characterized by a repulsive core at very small separations, an attractive binding region at intermediate distances, and rapid decay of the interaction at larger separations. The finite spatial extent of nucleon curvature cores naturally produces saturation behavior, limiting the number of strong interactions that a nucleon can form with its neighbors. In this framework the strong force emerges as a consequence of nonlinear curvature coupling between rotor solitons embedded in the vacuum manifold, providing a geometric mechanism for nuclear binding.