The brane as a Higgs domain wall: ideas and issues
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✦ hep-ph
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branedomainwallalternativebreakingbriefcalledclash
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The most obvious field-theoretic model for a brane is a scalar field domain wall or kink. I discuss how this idea can be connected with spontaneous internal symmetry breaking via a mechanism called the ``clash of symmetries''. Compatibility with Randall and Sundrum's warped metric alternative to compactification is then demonstrated. I end with brief remarks about open questions.
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