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http://hdl.handle.net/10773/18646| Title: | Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime |
| Author: | Berera, Arjun Buniy, Roman V. Kephart, Thomas W. Pas, Heinrich Rosa, João G. |
| Keywords: | Dimensionality of spacetime Knots |
| Issue Date: | 24-Sep-2017 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| 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. |
| Peer review: | yes |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/18646 |
| DOI: | 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5253-3 |
| ISSN: | 1434-6052 |
| Appears in Collections: | CIDMA - Artigos GGDG - Artigos |
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