Published February 15, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Domain wall network evolution in (N+1)-dimensional FRW universes

  • 1. Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal da Paraiba 58051-970 Joao Pessoa, Paraiba (Brazil)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica da Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto (Portugal)
  • 3. Centro de Fisica do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto (Portugal)

Description

We develop a velocity-dependent one-scale model for the evolution of domain wall networks in flat expanding or collapsing homogeneous and isotropic universes with an arbitrary number of spatial dimensions, finding the corresponding scaling laws in frictionless and friction dominated regimes. We also determine the allowed range of values of the curvature parameter and the expansion exponent for which a linear scaling solution is possible in the frictionless regime.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 043530-043530.5
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42104595
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
EVOLUTION; EXPANSION; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; SCALE MODELS; SCALING LAWS; UNIVERSE; VELOCITY
Descriptors DEC
STRUCTURAL MODELS

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(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics