Vacuum structure and gravitational bags produced by metric-independent space-time volume-form dynamics

DOI10.1142/S0217751X1550133XMaRDI QIDQ5743985zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emil Nissimov, Svetlana Pacheva, Eduardo Guendelman

Publication date 9 February 2016

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01031

zbMATH Keywords

charge confining nonlinear gauge field systemdilatonflat regions of scalar potentialglobal Weyl-scale symmetry spontaneous breakdowngravitational bagsMaxwell Lagrangianmodified gravity theoriesnon-Riemannian volume-formsQCD phenomenologyReissner-Nordström-de Sitter geometrySchwarzschild-de Sitter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We propose a new class of gravity-matter-gauge theories in terms of two different non-Riemannian volume-forms independent of the Riemannian metric. The nonlinear gauge field system contains a square-root $sqrt-F^2$ of the standard Maxwell Lagrangian which is known to describe charge confinement in flat spacetime. In the physical Einstein frame we obtain an effective Lagrangian of "k-essence" type with quadratic dependence on the scalar "dilaton" kinetic term X, with a remarkable effective potential possessing two infinitely large flat regions as well as with nontrivial effective gauge coupling constants running with the "dilaton" $varphi$. Corresponding to the each of the two flat regions we find "vacuum" configurations of the following types: (i) $varphi=const$ and a non-zero gauge field vacuum $sqrt-F^{2}eq0$, which corresponds to a charge confining phase; (ii) X = const ("kinetic vacuum") and ordinary gauge field vacuum $sqrt-F^2=0$ which supports confinement-free charge dynamics. In one of the flat regions of the effective potential we also find: (iii) X = const ("kinetic vacuum") and a non-zero gauge field vacuum $sqrt-F^{2}eq0$, which again corresponds to a charge confining phase. In all three cases the spacetime metric is de Sitter or Schwarzschild-de Sitter. Both "kinetic vacuums" (ii) and (iii) can exist only within a finite-volume space region below a de Sitter horizon. Extension to the whole space requires matching the latter with the exterior region with a nonstandard Reissner-Nordstroem-de Sitter geometry carrying an additional constant radial background electric field. As a result we obtain two classes of gravitational bag-like configurations with properties, which on one hand partially parallel some of the properties of the solitonic "constituent quark" model and, on the other hand, partially mimic some of the properties of MIT bags in QCD phenomenology.

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