Real versus Complex Fermion Bare Mass and Multi-Wall String Defect Annihilation

arXiv:2606.08142 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, hep-th · Submitted 2026-06-06 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, hep-th

Submitted: 2026-06-06

Updated: 2026-10-09

Terminology

• Domain Walls — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Topological Defects — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Domain Walls (DWs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Extensions of the Standard Model — 1× in this paper
• Symmetry Breaking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Monopoles on strings
• Planck Scale Symmetry Breaking and Majoron Physics
• Evading the cosmological domain wall problem
• Studies of the motion and decay of axion walls bounded by strings
• Nano-Hertz gravitational waves from collapsing domain walls associated with freeze-in dark matter in light of pulsar timing array observations
• Collapsing domain walls with $\mathbb{Z}_2$-violating coupling to thermalized fermions and their impact on gravitational wave detections
• Gravitational waves from seesaw assisted collapsing domain walls
• Can Dirac neutrinos destabilize $\mathcal{Z}_2$ domain wall network?
• Imprint of matter-antimatter asymmetry on collapsing domain walls
• Imperfect Axion Precludes the Domain Wall Problem
• Insights on the Cosmic Origin of Matter from Proton Stability
• From $U(1) \times U(1)$ Symmetry Breaking to Majoron Cosmology: Insights from NANOGrav 15-year Data
• Decay of Metastable Topological Defects
• Classification of Abelian domain walls
• Axionic domain walls at Pulsar Timing Arrays: QCD bias and particle friction
• About electroweak domain walls in Majoron models
• Chern-Weil Global Symmetries and How Quantum Gravity Avoids Them
• TASI Lectures: (No) Global Symmetries to Axion Physics
• Gravitational wave signatures from discrete flavor symmetries
• Friction on ALP domain walls and gravitational waves

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