Cosmic Strings in Supergravity
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
It is pointed out that various types of cosmic string solutions that exist in nonsupersymmetric and globally supersymmetric theories, such as D-type gauge strings, F-type global and gauge strings, and superconducting Witten strings, also exist in supergravity models. When the D term and superpotential satisfy some simple conditions allowing the determination of a set of vacuum states with nontrivial topology, the existence of a string embedded within a supersymmetric vacuum with vanishing cosmological constant can be inferred. Supergravity also admits other string solutions, some of which have no counterparts in globally supersymmetric theories.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9706302,
title = {Cosmic Strings in Supergravity},
author = {J. R. Morris},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9706302},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, revtex, no figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. D