High Temperature Symmetry Breaking via Flat Directions

Abstract

We show that the natural presence of flat directions in supersymmetric theories allows for nonrestoration of global and/or gauge symmetries. This has important cosmological consequences for supersymmetric GUTs and in particular it offers a solution of the monopole problem.

4 pages, 1 Postscript figure, some minor changes and references added

References in corpus (5)

• Large Lepton Number of the Universe and The Fate of Topological Defects
• Inverse Symmetry Breaking with 4d Lattice Simulations
• The Fading of Symmetry Non-restoration at Finite Temperature
• R-charge Kills Monopoles
• High Temperature Symmetry Breaking, SUSY Flat Directions, and the Monopole Problem

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• Electroweak Symmetry Non-Restoration from Dark Matter
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