Metastable Defects in Generic Extensions of the Standard Model

Abstract

The main features of the recently found classically stable quasi-topological membranes and strings in generic, topologically trivial and weakly coupled two-Higgs extensions of the standard model are briefly reviewed. A variety of localized solutions in the same model are also presented.

Comments: 9 pages, Latex, 4 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the Conference QUARKS-96, Yaroslavl, Russia, 5-11 May 1996