The no-defect conjecture in cosmic crystallography
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
The topology of space is usually assumed simply connected, but could be multi-connected. We review in the latter case the possibility that topological defects arising at high energy phase transitions might still be present and find that either they are very unlikely to form at all, or space is effectively simply connected on scales up to the horizon size.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9606037,
title = {The no-defect conjecture in cosmic crystallography},
author = {Jean-Philippe Uzan and Patrick Peter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9606037},
year = {2009}
}
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LaTeX-REVTeX, 5 pages and 2 figures uuencoded, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett