Affiliation:
1. Department of Science, BMCC – The City University of New York, 199 Chambers St., New York, NY 10007, USA
Abstract
We argue that the geodesic rule, for global defects, is a consequence of the randomness of the values of the Goldstone field ϕ in each causally connected volume. As these volumes collide and coalescence, ϕ evolves by performing a random walk on the vacuum manifold [Formula: see text]. We derive a Fokker–Planck equation that describes the continuum limit of this process. Its fundamental solution is the heat kernel on [Formula: see text], whose leading asymptotic behavior establishes the geodesic rule.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
Astronomy and Astrophysics,Nuclear and High Energy Physics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Cited by
2 articles.
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