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Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime
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✦ hep-ph
astro-ph.COgr-qchep-th
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networkcosmologicaldimensionsinflationthreecompriseddimensionalitydrive
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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.
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