Magnetic Monopoles and Cosmic Inflation
| dc.creator | Goldhaber, Alfred Scharff | |
| dc.date | 2005-12-09 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:53:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:53:55Z | |
| dc.description | It is possible that the expansion of the universe began with an inflationary phase, in which the inflaton driving the process also was a Higgs field capable of stabilizing magnetic monopoles in a grand-unified gauge theory. If so, then the smallness of intensity fluctuations observed in the cosmic microwave background radiation implies that the self-coupling of the inflaton-Higgs field was exceedingly weak. It is argued here that the resulting broad, flat maximum in the Higgs potential makes the presence or absence of a topological zero in the field insignificant for inflation. There may be monopoles present in the universe, but the universe itself is not in the inflating core of a giant magnetic monopole. | |
| dc.description | 10 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512056 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512056 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/105762 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Magnetic Monopoles and Cosmic Inflation | |
| dc.type | text |