Title

Clash of Symmetries on the Brane

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Aharon Davidson, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
B. F. Toner, The University of Melbourne
R. R. Volkas, The University of Melbourne
K. C. Wali, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

2-7-2002

Keywords

high energy physics-theory, high energy physics-phenomenology

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

If our 3 + 1-dimensional universe is a brane or domain wall embedded in a higher dimensional space, then a phenomenon we term the “clash of symmetries” provides a new method of breaking some continuous symmetries. A global

Gcts ⊗ Gdiscrete symmetry is spontaneously broken to Hcts ⊗ Hdiscrete, where the continuous subgroup Hcts can be embedded in several different ways in the parent group Gcts, and Hdiscrete < Gdiscrete. A certain class of topological domain wall solutions connect two vacua that are invariant under differently embedded Hcts subgroups. There is then enhanced symmetry breakdown to the intersection of these two subgroups on the domain wall.This is the “clash”. In the brane limit, we obtain a configuration with Hcts symmetries in the bulk but the smaller intersection symmetry on the brane itself. We illustrate this idea using a permutation symmetric three-Higgstriplet toy model exploiting the distinct I−, U− and V − spin U(2) subgroups of U(3). The three disconnected portions of the vacuum manifold can be treated symmetrically through the construction of a three-fold planar domain wall junction configuration, with our universe at the nexus. A possible con-

Additional Information

This manuscript is from arXiv.org, more information can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202042

Recommended Citation

arXiv:hep-th/0202042v1

Source

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