Gravitational field of vacuumless defects

Details Gravitational field of vacuumless defects Gravitational field of vacuumless defects

1998-10-15

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9810049v1

Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 063510

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

19 pages, REVTeX, 6 Postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.59.063510

It has been recently shown that topological defects can arise in symmetry breaking models where the scalar field potential $V(\phi)$ has no minima and is a monotonically decreasing function of $|\phi|$. Here we study the gravitational fields produced by such vacuumless defects in the cases of both global and gauge symmetry breaking. We find that a global monopole has a strongly repulsive gravitational field, and its spacetime has an event horizon similar to that in de Sitter space. A gauge monopole spacetime is essentially that of a magnetically charged black hole. The gravitational field of a global string is repulsive and that of a gauge string is attractive at small distances and repulsive at large distances. Both gauge and global string spacetimes have singularities at a finite distance from the string core.

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