Spontaneous symmetry breaking in non-inertial frames and curved space-time

Padmanabhan, T. (1982) Spontaneous symmetry breaking in non-inertial frames and curved space-time Physics Letters A, 89 (3). pp. 131-132. ISSN 0375-9601

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Abstract

The conformally coupled Higgs scalar field (with λ φ4 quartic term) is studied in a class of non-lorentzian background metrics. It is shown that the spontaneous symmetry breaking depends crucially on the choice of the background metric. Various implications are discussed.

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