GRAVITY AND THE DOMAIN-WALL PROBLEM

被引:91
作者
RAI, B
SENJANOVIC, G
机构
[1] International Centre for Theoretical Physics
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1994年 / 49卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.49.2729
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
It is well known that the spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries may lead to a conflict with big-bang cosmology. This is due to the formation of domain walls which give an unacceptable contribution to the energy density of the Universe. On the other hand it is expected that gravity breaks global symmetries explicitly. In this work we propose that this could provide a natural solution to the domain-wall problem.
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页码:2729 / 2733
页数:5
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