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Kink Collisions in Curved Field Space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-23 v2

Abstract

We study bubble universe collisions in the ultrarelativistic limit with the new feature of allowing for nontrivial curvature in field space. We establish a simple geometrical interpretation of such collisions in terms of a double family of field profiles whose tangent vector fields stand in mutual parallel transport. This provides a generalization of the well-known flat field space limit of the free passage approximation. We investigate the limits of this approximation and illustrate our analytical results with a numerical simulations.

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@article{arxiv.1411.4631,
  title  = {Kink Collisions in Curved Field Space},
  author = {Pontus Ahlqvist and Kate Eckerle and Brian Greene},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4631},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

25 pages, 7 figures, Revised version modified to include Acknowledgements section