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Hairs of discrete symmetries and gravity
- Title
- Hairs of discrete symmetries and gravity
- Authors
- Choi K.S.; Kim J.E.; Kyae B.; Nam S.
- Ewha Authors
- 최강신
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 최강신
- Issue Date
- 2017
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- Citation
- Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics vol. 769, pp. 430 - 435
- Keywords
- Discrete hair; Discrete symmetry; Gravity; Wormholes
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V.
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- Gauge symmetries are known to be respected by gravity because gauge charges carry flux lines, but global charges do not carry flux lines and are not conserved by gravitational interaction. For discrete symmetries, they are spontaneously broken in the Universe, forming domain walls. Since the realization of discrete symmetries in the Universe must involve the vacuum expectation values of Higgs fields, a string-like configuration (hair) at the intersection of domain walls in the Higgs vacua can be realized. Therefore, we argue that discrete charges are also respected by gravity. © 2017 The Author(s)
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.04.008
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- 스크랜튼대학 > 스크랜튼학부 > Journal papers
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