Vacuum defects without a vacuum

Inyong Cho; Alexander Vilenkin

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.59.021701

Vacuum defects without a vacuum

Inyong Cho, Alexander Vilenkin

School of Natural Sciences

Tufts University

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Abstract

Topological defects can arise in symmetry breaking models where the scalar field potential (Formula presented) has no minima and is a monotonically decreasing function of |φ|. The properties of such vacuumless defects are quite different from those of the “usual” strings and monopoles. In some models such defects can serve as seeds for structure formation, or produce an appreciable density of mini-black holes.

Original language	English
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	59
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.59.021701
State	Published - 1999

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