Are Textures Natural?

Abstract

We make the simple observation that, because of global symmetry violating higher-dimension operators expected to be induced by Planck-scale physics, textures are generically much too short-lived to be of use for large-scale structure formation.

9pp

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• Planck-Scale Physics and the Peccei-Quinn Mechanism
• Solutions to the strong CP problem in a world with gravity

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