Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-08-07 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
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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@article{arxiv.1508.01458,
title = {Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime},
author = {Arjun Berera and Roman V. Buniy and Thomas W. Kephart and Heinrich Päs and João G. Rosa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.01458},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages