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Compactification and cosmic string phenomenology
Author(s) -
Bleyer U.,
Heinrich O.,
Nikolaenko V. M.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.2113110310
Subject(s) - physics , compactification (mathematics) , cosmic string , phenomenology (philosophy) , theoretical physics , string phenomenology , gravitation , gravitational wave , higgs boson , mathematical physics , particle physics , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , string (physics) , quantum gravity , quantum , relationship between string theory and quantum field theory , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology , pure mathematics
A U (1) model of gravitational, Higgs and, gauge fields is analysed. Two phases of the system are considered. In the case with broken symmetry we have the Nielsen‐Olesen configuration. In the symmetric phase we find a space‐time metric S 2 × E 1 2 . This appears in full analogy to the Freund‐Rubin compactification due to an antisymmeric tensor field. The connection of these structures with cosmic string phenomenology is analysed.