Double-periodic wormholes in theories with global symmetries
Abstract
We examine the quantum theory of a complex scalar field with global U(1) symmetry minimally coupled to gravity. We find numerically that there exists a double-periodic wormhole solution in addition to a single-periodic one if a potential has a local maximum at a finite value of the scalar field. Spontaneous breakdown of the U(1) symmetry is irrelevant to the existence of the wormholes of finite action.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- June 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989dpwt.rept.....M
- Keywords:
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- Gravitational Fields;
- Quantum Mechanics;
- Quantum Theory;
- Scalers;
- Symmetry;
- Field Theory (Physics);
- Variations;
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics