Knotty Inflation and the Dimensionality of Spacetime

Authors

Arjun Berera, University of Edinburgh
Roman V. Buniy, Chapman UniversityFollow
Thomas W. Kephart, Vanderbilt University
Heinrich Päs, Technische Universität Dortmund
João G. Rosa, Universidade de Aveiro

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-14-2017

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.

Comments

This article was originally published in European Physical Journal C, volume 77, in 2017. DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5253-3

Recommended Citation

Berera, A., Buniy, R.V., Kephart, T.W. et al. Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77: 682. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5253-3

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