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arxiv: hep-ph/9312254 · v3 · submitted 1993-12-09 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph

A Texture Bestiary

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keywords grouptextureconfigurationsfieldnontrivialsymmetrybestiarybreaking
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Textures are topologically nontrivial field configurations which can exist in a field theory in which a global symmetry group $G$ is broken to a subgroup $H$, if the third homotopy group $\p3$ of $G/H$ is nontrivial. We compute this group for a variety of choices of $G$ and $H$, revealing what symmetry breaking patterns can lead to texture. We also comment on the construction of texture configurations in the different models.

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