Instability of cosmic Yang-Mills fields

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2021.115583zbMATH Open1480.83135arXiv2102.08401OpenAlexW3209458312MaRDI QIDQ2057799FDOQ2057799

Authors: Kaushlendra Kumar, Olaf Lechtenfeld, Gabriel Picanço Costa 

Publication date: 7 December 2021

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There exists a small family of analytic SO(4)-invariant but time-dependent SU(2) Yang-Mills solutions in any conformally flat four-dimensional spacetime. These might play a role in early-universe cosmology for stabilizing the symmetric Higgs vacuum. We analyze the linear stability of these "cosmic gauge fields" against general gauge-field perturbations while keeping the metric frozen, by diagonalizing the (time-dependent) Yang-Mills fluctuation operator around them and applying Floquet theory to its eigenfrequencies and normal modes. Except for the exactly solvable SO(4) singlet perturbation, which is found to be marginally stable linearly but bounded nonlinearly, generic normal modes often grow exponentially due to resonance effects. Even at very high energies, all cosmic Yang-Mills backgrounds are rendered linearly unstable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08401

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K50)

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