Entrapment of a network of domain walls
Abstract
We explore the idea of a network of defects to live inside a domain wall in models of three real scalar fields, engendering the Z2×Z3 symmetry. The field that governs the Z2 symmetry generates a domain wall, and entraps the hexagonal network formed by the three junctions of the model of two scalar fields that describes the remaining Z3 symmetry. If the host domain wall bends to spherical form, in the thin wall approximation there may appear nontopological structures hosting networks that accept diverse patterns. If Z3 is also broken, the model may generate a buckyball containing 60 junctions, a fullerenelike structure. Applications to cosmology are outlined.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- November 2000
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0005045
- Bibcode:
- 2000PhRvD..62j1701B
- Keywords:
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- 11.27.+d;
- 11.30.Er;
- 98.80.Cq;
- Extended classical solutions;
- cosmic strings domain walls texture;
- Charge conjugation parity time reversal and other discrete symmetries;
- Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter;
- Nonlinear Sciences - Pattern Formation and Solitons
- E-Print:
- Revtex, 4 pages, 2 ps figures