Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime

Arjun Berera; Heinrich P\"as; Jo\~ao G. Rosa; Roman V. Buniy; Thomas W. Kephart

Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime

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arxiv 1508.01458 v1 pith:5ICEIXFW submitted 2015-08-06 hep-ph astro-ph.COgr-qchep-th

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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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