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A stealth defect of spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-08-08 v5 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss a special type of Skyrmion spacetime-defect solution, which has a positive energy density of the matter fields but a vanishing asymptotic gravitational mass. With a mass term for the matter field added to the action (corresponding to massive "pions" in the Skyrme model), this particular soliton-type solution has no long-range fields and can appropriately be called a "stealth defect."

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@article{arxiv.1805.04091,
  title  = {A stealth defect of spacetime},
  author = {F. R. Klinkhamer and J. M. Queiruga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.04091},
  year   = {2018}
}

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12 pages, v5: published version

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