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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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berera, Arjun (author)
Outros Autores: Buniy, Roman V. (author), Kephart, Thomas W. (author), Pas, Heinrich (author), Rosa, João G. (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2017
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10773/18646
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/18646