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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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
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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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author Berera, Arjun
Buniy, Roman V.
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Rosa, João G.
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description 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 provides a dynamical explanation for the existence of exactly three large spatial dimensions in our Universe.
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spelling pubmed-69569232020-01-27 Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime Berera, Arjun Buniy, Roman V. Kephart, Thomas W. Päs, Heinrich Rosa, João G. Eur Phys J C Part Fields Letter 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 provides a dynamical explanation for the existence of exactly three large spatial dimensions in our Universe. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017-10-14 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC6956923/ /pubmed/31997923 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5253-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Funded by SCOAP3
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Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6956923/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5253-3
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