Are textures natural?
- 7 September 1992
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 69 (10) , 1485-1488
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.69.1485
Abstract
We make the simple observation that, because of global symmetry violating higher-dimension operators expected to be induced by Planck-scale physics, textures are generically much too short-lived to be of use for large-scale structure formation.Comment: 9pKeywords
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