title: New global defect structures.
abstract: We investigate the presence of defects in systems described by real scalar field in (D,1) spacetime dimensions. We show that when the potential assumes specific form, there are models which support stable global defects for D arbitrary. We also show how to find first-order differential equations that solve the equations of motion, and how to solve models in D dimensions via soluble problems in D=1. We illustrate the procedure examining specific models and finding explicit solutions.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, C.P. 5008, 58051-970 João Pessoa PB, Brazil.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bazeia
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Menezes
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Menezes