Mass, Spacetime Symmetry, de Sitter Vacuum, and the Higgs Mechanism

Orbits of Particles and Photons around Regular Rotating Black Holes and Solitons

We briefly overview the basic properties and generic behavior of circular equatorial particle orbits and light rings around regular rotating compact objects with dark energy interiors, which are described by regular metrics of the Kerr–Schild class and include rotating black holes and self-gravitating spinning solitons replacing naked singularities. These objects have an internal de Sitter vacuum disk and can have two types of dark interiors, depending on the energy conditions. The first type reduces to the de Sitter disk, the second contains a closed de Sitter surface and an S surface with the de Sitter disk as the bridge and an anisotropic phantom fluid in the regions between the S surface and the disk. In regular geometry, the potentials decrease from V(r)→∞ to their minima, which ensures the existence of the innermost stable photon and particle orbits that are essential for processes of energy extraction occurring within the ergoregions, which for the second type of interiors contain the phantom energy. The innermost orbits provide a diagnostic tool for investigation of dark interiors of de Sitter–Kerr objects. They include light rings which confine these objects and ensure the most informative observational signature for rotating black holes presented by their shadows.

Generic Behavior of Electromagnetic Fields of Regular Rotating Electrically Charged Compact Objects in Nonlinear Electrodynamics Minimally Coupled to Gravity

Regular rotating electrically charged compact objects are described by nonlinear electrodynamics minimally coupled to gravity in a self-consistent way and without additional assumptions on the relation between the electromagnetic field and gravity. The electromagnetic fields obey the system of four source-free nonlinear equations for the electromagnetic tensor Fμν, with only two independent components due to spacetime symmetry determined by the algebraic structure of electromagnetic stress–energy tensors (pr=−ρ). In this paper, we present, for an arbitrary gauge-invariant Lagrangian, the general regular solution and generic behavior of electromagnetic fields, including the generic features of the Lagrange dynamics, for regular rotating electrically charged black holes and electromagnetic spinning solitons.

Classification of Circular Equatorial Orbits around Regular Rotating Black Holes and Solitons with the de Sitter/Phantom Interiors

We study the basic properties of the circular equatorial orbits for the regular axially symmetric solutions, obtained with using the Gürses–Gürsey formalism which includes the Newman–Janis algorithm, from regular spherically symmetric metrics of the Kerr–Schild class specified by Ttt=Trr. Solutions of this class describe regular rotating black holes and spinning solitons replacing naked singularities. All these objects have the interior de Sitter equatorial disk, and can have two kinds of interiors determined by the energy conditions. One of them contains an additional interior de Sitter vacuum S-surface with the de Sitter disk as a bridge, whose internal cavities are filled with a phantom fluid. We study in detail the innermost equatorial circular orbits and show that in the field of spinning solitons, the innermost orbits exist within ergoregions related to phantom regions. We show also that around spinning solitons there can exist four corotating light rings and around a regular black hole, one corotating light ring, which is stable for a certain class of black holes. For all objects there exists one counterrotating light ring.

Tachyons and Solitons in Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Frame of Field Theory

This paper presents our study of the presence of the unstable critical point in spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in the framework of Ginzburg–Landau (G-L) free energy. Through a 3D Ising spin lattice simulation, we found a zone of hysteresis where the unstable critical point continued to exist, despite the system having entered the broken symmetry phase. Within the hysteresis zone, the presence of the kink–antikink SSB solitons expands and, therefore, these can be observed. In scalar field theories, such as Higgs fields, the mass of this soliton inside the hysteresis zone could behave as a tachyon mass, namely as an imaginary quantity. Due to the fact that groups Ζ(2) and SU(2) belong to the same universality class, one expects that, in future experiments of ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions, in addition to the expected bosons condensations, structures of tachyon fields could appear.

The Higgs Mechanism and Spacetime Symmetry

In this review, we summarize the results of the analysis of the inherent relation between the Higgs mechanism and spacetime symmetry provided by generic incorporation of the de Sitter vacuum as a false vacuum with the equation of state p=−ρ. This relation has been verified by the application for the interpretation of the experimental results on the negative mass squares for neutrinos, and of the appearance of the minimal length in the annihilation reaction e+e−→γγ(γ). An additional verification is expected for the dark matter candidates with the interior de Sitter vacuum of the GUT scale, whose predicted observational signatures include the induced proton decay in the matter of an underground detector, such as IceCUBE.

The Fundamental Roles of the de Sitter Vacuum

We overview the fundamental roles of the de Sitter vacuum in cosmology where it is responsible for powering the early inflationary stage(s) and the present accelerated expansion, in black hole physics where it provides the existence of a wide class of regular black holes and self-gravitating solitons replacing naked singularities, and in particle physics where it ensures the intrinsic relation of the Higgs mechanism with gravity and spacetime symmetry breaking.