Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon

Princeton University

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Abstract

I argue that coupling the Abelian Higgs model to gravity plus a negative cosmological constant leads to black holes which spontaneously break the gauge invariance via a charged scalar condensate slightly outside their horizon. This suggests that black holes can superconduct.

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Keywords
  • Physics
  • Black hole (networking)
  • Abelian group
  • Horizon
  • Higgs boson
  • Nonsingular black hole models
  • Theoretical physics
  • Mathematical physics
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