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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 GG is broken to a subgroup HH, if the third homotopy group \p3\p3 of G/HG/H is nontrivial. We compute this group for a variety of choices of GG and HH, 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.)