Published October 2017 | Version v1
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Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime

Creators

  • 1. University of Edinburgh, Tait Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Chapman University, Schmid College of Science, Orange, CA (United States)
  • 3. Vanderbilt University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Nashville, TN (United States)
  • 4. Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Fakultaet fuer Physik, Dortmund (Germany)
  • 5. Departamento de Fisica da Universidade de Aveiro and CIDMA, Aveiro (Portugal)

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. (orig.)

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5253-3

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5253-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online)
Journal Volume
77
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 1-7
ISSN
1434-6052

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
Germany
INIS RN
49004505
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
CANONICAL DIMENSION; COSMOLOGICAL INFLATION; DISTURBANCES; MAGNETIC FLUX; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; SPACE-TIME; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; TOPOLOGY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; UNIVERSE; VACUUM STATES
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SCALE DIMENSION