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Abstract / Description of output
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.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 682 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | The European Physical Journal C |
Volume | 77 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Oct 2017 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- QUANTUM LIQUID
- ABELIAN-HIGGS
- MODEL
- GAUGE
- QCD
- SUPERCONDUCTORS
- INVARIANCE
- GLUEBALLS
- UNIVERSE
- STRINGS
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Particle Theory at the Higgs Centre
Ball, R., Berera, A., Boyle, P., Callison-Burch, C., Del Debbio, L., Gardi, E., Kennedy, A., O'Connell, D., Zwicky, R., Berera, A., Boyle, P., Buckley, A., Del Debbio, L., Gardi, E., Horsley, R., Kennedy, A., Kenway, R., O'Connell, D., Smillie, J. & Zwicky, R.
1/10/14 → 30/09/18
Project: Research