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Black hole scalarization with spontaneous symmetry breaking

GGD - Gr@V Seminar
Speaker
Sebastian Garcia-Saenz (Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech))
Event date
Venue
Online (Teams)
Event type

Spontaneous scalarization of black holes may be understood in the language of symmetry breaking, with the scalar field condensate serving as order parameter. This motivates the study of theories with more interesting symmetry breaking patterns, i.e. beyond the simplest real scalar case.