A Texture Bestiary
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-22 v3 Astrophysics
Abstract
Textures are topologically nontrivial field configurations which can exist in a field theory in which a global symmetry group is broken to a subgroup , if the third homotopy group of is nontrivial. We compute this group for a variety of choices of and , revealing what symmetry breaking patterns can lead to texture. We also comment on the construction of texture configurations in the different models.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9312254,
title = {A Texture Bestiary},
author = {James A. Bryan and Sean M. Carroll and Ted Pyne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9312254},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
34 pages, plain Tex. (Minor corrections to an old paper.)