Domain Wall Dominated Universes
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We consider a cosmogony with a dark matter component consisting of a network of frustrated domain walls. Such a network provides a solid dark matter component with that remains unclustered on small scales and with can reconcile a spatially flat universe with the many observations indicating Because of its large negative pressure, this component can explain the recent observations indicating an accelerating universe without recourse to a non-vanishing cosmological constant. We explore the viability of this proposal and prospects for distinguishing it from other kinds of proposed dark matter with significant negative pressure.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9908047,
title = {Domain Wall Dominated Universes},
author = {Richard A. Battye and Martin Bucher and David Spergel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9908047},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages revtex with three embedded postscript figures. Minor mistakes corrected