Initial conditions from the action principle: application to cosmology and to false vacuum bubbles

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.05.061zbMATH Open1331.81368arXiv1304.6823OpenAlexW1517821992MaRDI QIDQ5963835FDOQ5963835

Authors: Eduardo Guendelman, Roee Steiner 

Publication date: 23 February 2016

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

Abstract: We study models where the gauge coupling constants, masses, etc are functions of some conserved charge in the universe. We first consider the standard Dirac action, but where the mass and the electromagnetic coupling constant are a function of the charge in the universe and afterwards extend this scalar fields. For Dirac field in the flat space formulation, the formalism is not manifestly Lorentz invariant, however Lorentz invariance can be restored by performing a phase transformation of the Dirac field. In the case where scalar field are considered, there is the new feature that an initial condition for the scalar field is derived from the action. In the case of the Higgs field, the initial condition require, that the universe be at the false vacuum state at a certain time slice, which is quite important for inflation scenarios. Also false vacuum branes will be studied in a similar approach. We discuss also the use of "spoiling terms", that violate gauge invariant to introduce these initial condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6823

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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