NS1 - Observational Constraints on the Micro and Macroscopic Properties of Compact Stars |
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Kephart, Thomas |
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Berera, Arjun; Buniy, Roman V.; Kephart, Thomas W.; Päs,Heinrich ; Rosa, João G. |
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Knotted flux tubes, inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime |
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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. |
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