On Inflation and Variation of the Strong Coupling Constant
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Variation of constants in the very early universe can generate inflation. We consider a scenario where the strong coupling constant was changing in time and where the gluon condensate underwent a phase transition ending the inflation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0612536,
title = {On Inflation and Variation of the Strong Coupling Constant},
author = {N. Chamoun and S. J. Landau and H. Vucetich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0612536},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
12 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics D