A rigid Skyrmion orientation is quantized on a cover of its Skyrmion collective-coordinate orbit. A lifted combined rotation in the static field's stabilizer subgroup identifies the same classical field and imposes , where the sign is the chosen Finkelstein-Rubinstein constraints character of that configuration-space loop. Choosing the nontrivial character models unit baryons as fermions. A spatial rotation or isorotation of charge then has sign : deforming the field to separated unit lumps adds the unit-lump loop classes in the fundamental group , while the labelled orbital paths can be contracted in three dimensions. The resulting Finkelstein-Rubinstein constraints sign is the product of the unit-lump signs. Hence spin and isospin are half-integer for odd and integer for even . Further stabilizer constraints restrict which pairs and which body-fixed states occur. The energy operator comes from the inertia tensors on the orbit; symmetry selects allowed states but does not by itself determine their energies. A bosonic choice of the trivial topological character is mathematically possible but does not model a fermionic nucleon.
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