Published April 18, 1991
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Journal article
Global strings in five-dimensional supergravity
Description
We show the existence of solitonic solutions of five-dimensional supergravity, which can be interpreted as global cosmic strings in our universe. They possess the same mathematical structure as the stringy cosmic strings studied by Greene, Shapere, Vafa and Yau, while the size of the extra space and the value of the extra-space component of the gauge field vary from place to place around the string in our model. We also show that supersymmetry is partially broken in the presence of the global strings. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters, (Section) B
- Journal Volume
- 259
- Journal Issue
- 1/2
- Series
- Phys. Lett., B.
- Journal Page Range
- 58-62
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 22078091
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; COSMOLOGY; EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; MAJORANA THEORY; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; METRICS; SCALAR FIELDS; SOLITONS; SPINOR FIELDS; STRING MODELS; SUPERGRAVITY; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; UNIVERSE; VACUUM STATES; VECTOR FIELDS
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUASI PARTICLES; SYMMETRY; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES