Wormholes and masses for Goldstone bosons

Abstract There exist non-trivial stationary points of the Euclidean action for an axion particle minimally coupled to Einstein gravity, dubbed wormholes. They explicitly break the continuos global shift symmetry of the axion in a non-perturbative way, and generate an effective potential that may com...

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Main Authors: Rodrigo Alonso, Alfredo Urbano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-02-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP02(2019)136