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Phys. Rev. D 62, 101701(R) (2000) [4 pages]

Entrapment of a network of domain walls

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D. Bazeia and F. A. Brito
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Caixa Postal 5008, 58051-970 João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

Received 21 July 2000; published 20 October 2000

We explore the idea of a network of defects to live inside a domain wall in models of three real scalar fields, engendering the Z2×Z3 symmetry. The field that governs the Z2 symmetry generates a domain wall, and entraps the hexagonal network formed by the three junctions of the model of two scalar fields that describes the remaining Z3 symmetry. If the host domain wall bends to spherical form, in the thin wall approximation there may appear nontopological structures hosting networks that accept diverse patterns. If Z3 is also broken, the model may generate a buckyball containing 60 junctions, a fullerenelike structure. Applications to cosmology are outlined.

© 2000 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.101701
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.101701
PACS:
11.27.+d, 11.30.Er, 98.80.Cq