Vacuum structure and global strings with conical singularities

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02894-0MaRDI QIDQ1848258zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yoonbai Kim, O-Kab Kwon, Jongsu Sohn

Publication date 19 November 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208140

zbMATH Keywords

one-loop effective actioneffective self-interacting \(O(2)\) scalar-field theoryheat-kernel methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: Vacuum structure and global cosmic strings are analyzed in the effective theory of self-interacting O(2) scalar fields on (3+1)-manifolds with conical singularities. In the context of one-loop effective action computed by heat-kernel methods with $zeta$-function regularization, we find an inhomogeneous vacuum of minimum energy and suggest some reason why low-energy global strings are likely to be generated at the conical singularities.

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• QUANTUM GLOBAL STRINGS AND THEIR CORRELATION FUNCTIONS
• The number of eigenstates: counting function and heat kernel
• Naked singularities in low-energy, effective string theory
• Vacuum interaction of conic singularities
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• Unconventional stringlike singularities in flat spacetime

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