Spontaneous Parity Breaking, Gauge Coupling Unification and Consistent Cosmology with Transitory Domain Walls

TL;DR

This paper investigates mechanisms to eliminate transitory domain walls in Left-Right Symmetric Models by using Planck scale suppressed operators, ensuring cosmological consistency and gauge coupling unification.

Contribution

It demonstrates that minimal LRSM cannot remove domain walls via these operators, proposes two extensions that succeed, and constrains parity breaking scales based on cosmology and unification.

Findings

Planck scale suppressed operators can eliminate domain walls in extended LRSMs.

Minimal LRSM cannot remove domain walls with these operators.

Constraints on parity breaking scale ensure both cosmological and unification consistency.

Abstract

Formation of transitory domain walls is quite generic in theories with spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries. Since these walls are in conflict with cosmology, there has to be some mechanism which makes them disappear. We study one such mechanism by incorporating Planck scale suppressed operators within the framework of Left-Right Symmetric Models (LRSM) where Left-Right parity (D parity) is spontaneously broken. We find that this mechanism can not make the walls disappear in minimal versions of LRSM. We propose two viable extensions of this model and show that Planck scale suppressed operators can give rise to successful disappearance of domain walls provided the scale of parity breaking obeys certain limits. We also constrain the scale of parity breaking by demanding successful gauge coupling unification and make a comparison of the unification and cosmology bounds.