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TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-gravitating line sources of weak hypercharge
AU - Dereli, Tekin
AU - Tucker, Robin
PY - 1999/8
Y1 - 1999/8
N2 - We explore the role of a generalized Cremmer-Scherk mechanism of mass generation by coupling the antisymmetric 3-form gauge field to an Abelian gauge potential carrying weak hypercharge. The theory admits a class of exact self-gravitating solutions in the spontaneously broken phase in which dual fields acquire massive perturbative modes. Despite the massive nature of these fields they admit non-perturbative progressive longitudinal modes that together with pp-type gravitational waves travel in a direction of a line source at the speed of light.
AB - We explore the role of a generalized Cremmer-Scherk mechanism of mass generation by coupling the antisymmetric 3-form gauge field to an Abelian gauge potential carrying weak hypercharge. The theory admits a class of exact self-gravitating solutions in the spontaneously broken phase in which dual fields acquire massive perturbative modes. Despite the massive nature of these fields they admit non-perturbative progressive longitudinal modes that together with pp-type gravitational waves travel in a direction of a line source at the speed of light.
U2 - 10.1088/0264-9381/16/8/101
DO - 10.1088/0264-9381/16/8/101
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - L45-L49
JO - Classical and Quantum Gravity
JF - Classical and Quantum Gravity
SN - 0264-9381
IS - 8
ER -