Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime

Arjun Berera; Roman V. Buniy; Thomas W. Kephart; Heinrich Paes; Joao G. Rosa

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5253-3

Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime

Arjun Berera^*
, Roman V. Buniy
, Thomas W. Kephart
, Heinrich Paes
, Joao G. Rosa

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Physics and Astronomy

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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
Article number	682
Number of pages	7
Journal	The European Physical Journal C
Volume	77
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5253-3
Publication status	Published - 14 Oct 2017

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QUANTUM LIQUID
ABELIAN-HIGGS
MODEL
GAUGE
QCD
SUPERCONDUCTORS
INVARIANCE
GLUEBALLS
UNIVERSE
STRINGS

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Particle Theory at the Higgs Centre
Ball, R. (Principal Investigator), Berera, A. (Co-investigator), Boyle, P. (Co-investigator), Callison-Burch, C. (Co-investigator), Del Debbio, L. (Co-investigator), Gardi, E. (Co-investigator), Kennedy, A. (Co-investigator), O'Connell, D. (Co-investigator), Zwicky, R. (Co-investigator), Berera, A. (Researcher), Boyle, P. (Researcher), Buckley, A. (Researcher), Del Debbio, L. (Researcher), Gardi, E. (Researcher), Horsley, R. (Researcher), Kennedy, A. (Researcher), Kenway, R. (Researcher), O'Connell, D. (Researcher), Smillie, J. (Researcher) & Zwicky, R. (Researcher)
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1/10/14 → 30/09/18
Project: Research

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