Defect structures in Lorentz and CPT violating scenarios
Creators
- 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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.065015;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-th/0506262v3;
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
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2006 The American Physical Society