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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Berera, Arjun, Buniy, Roman V., Kephart, Thomas W., Päs, Heinrich, Rosa, João G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
Materias:
Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6956923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31997923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5253-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6956923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31997923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5253-3

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