Gravity of a noncanonical global monopole: conical topology and compactification

Abstract

We obtain solutions of Einstein’s equations describing gravitational field outside a noncanonical global monopole with cosmological constant. In particular, we consider two models of k-monopoles: the Dirac–Born–Infeld and the power-law types, and study their corresponding exterior gravitational fields. For each model we found two types of solutions. The first of which are global k-monopole black hole with conical global topology. These are generalizations of the Barriola–Vilenkin solution of global monopole. The appearance of noncanonical kinetic terms does not modify the critical symmetry-breaking scale, $$\eta _{crit}$$ηcrit, but it does affect the corresponding horizon(s). The second type of solution is compactification, whose topology is a product of two 2-dimensional spaces with constant curvatures; $${\mathcal Y}_4\rightarrow {\mathcal Z}_2\times S^2$$Y4→Z2×S2, with $${\mathcal Y}, {\mathcal Z}$$Y,Z can be de Sitter, Minkowski, or Anti-de Sitter, and $$S^2$$S2 is the 2-sphere. We investigate all possible compactifications and show that the nonlinearity of kinetic terms opens up new channels which are otherwise non-existent. For $$\Lambda =0$$Λ=0 four-dimensional geometry, we conjecture that these compactification channels are their (possible) non-static super-critical states, right before they undergo topological inflation.