Published March 15, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Defect structures in Lorentz and CPT violating scenarios

  • 1. Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, 58051-970 Joao Pessoa, Paraiba (Brazil)
  • 2. Centro de Fisica e Departamento de Fisica, Universidade do Porto, Porto (Portugal)

Description

We investigate models described by real scalar fields, searching for defect structures in the presence of interactions which explicitly violate Lorentz and CPT symmetries. We first deal with a single field, and we investigate a class of models which supports traveling waves that violate Lorentz invariance. This scenario is then generalized to the case of two (or more) real scalar fields. In the case of two fields, in particular, we introduce another class of models, which supports topological structures that attain a Bogomol'nyi bound, although violating both Lorentz and CPT symmetries. An example is considered, for which we construct the Bogomol'nyi bound and find some explicit solutions. We show that violation of both Lorentz and CPT symmetries induces the appearance of an asymmetry between defects and antidefects, including the presence of linearly stable solutions with negative energy density in their outer side

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
73
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 065015-065015.9
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37085902
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ASYMMETRY; CPT THEOREM; DEFECTS; ENERGY DENSITY; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; SCALAR FIELDS; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TOPOLOGY; TRAVELLING WAVES
Descriptors DEC
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICS

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