Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime
We suggest a structure for the vacuum comprised of a network of tightly knotted/linked flux tubes formed in a QCD-like cosmological phase transition and show that such a network can drive cosmological inflation. As the network can be topologically stable only in three space dimensions, this scenario...
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| Other Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/18646 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/18646 |