A dynamical symmetry breaking model in Weyl space

The dynamical process following the breaking of Weyl geometry to Riemannian geometry is considered by studying the motion of de Sitter bubbles in a Weyl vacuum. The bubbles are given in terms of an exact, spherically symmetric thin shell solution to the Einstein equations in a Weyl-Dirac theory with a time-dependent scalar field of the form β = f(t)/r. The dynamical solutions obtained lead to a number of possible applications. An important feature of the thin shell model is the manner in which β provides a connection between the interior and exterior geometries since information about the exterior geometry is contained in the boundary conditions for β. PACS numbers: 04.50.+h, 04.20.Jb, 04.20.Cv Typeset using REVTEX 1