3 papers
hep-th2026
Cuspidal Singularities in Collapsing Domain Walls
Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Matthew Elley, Francesc Ferrer +4
Domain wall networks have attracted renewed interest, particularly in relation to the dynamics of network collapse. Accurately describing this process is challenging and typically…
hep-ph2026
Cosmological Implications of the Slingshot Effect: Gravitational Waves, Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter
Maximilian Bachmaier, Gia Dvali, Juan Sebastián Valbuena-Bermúdez +1
In this paper, we explore the implications of the so-called slingshot effect. It represents a rather general phenomenon occurring when a localized source, such as a monopole, quark…
hep-th2025
Witten Effect in -Form Description of -vacua
Maximilian Bachmaier, Gia Dvali, Juan Sebastián Valbuena-Bermúdez
The -vacua of a gauge theory admit an equivalent formulation as vacua of a massless Chern-Simons -form, which originate from the topological susceptibility of the vacuum. Thi…