The Big Bang as a Phase Transition
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We study a five-dimensional cosmological model, which suggests that the universe bagan as a discontinuity in a (Higgs-type) scalar field, or alternatively as a conventional four-dimensional phase transition.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0310067,
title = {The Big Bang as a Phase Transition},
author = {Tomas Liko and Paul S. Wesson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0310067},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 2 figures; typo corrected in equation (18); 1 reference added; version to appear in International Journal of Modern Physics A