The no-defect conjecture in cosmic crystallography

Preprint

15 June 1996

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.gr-qc/9606037

Abstract

The topology of space is usually assumed simply connected, but could be multi-connected. We review in the latter case the possibility that topological defects arising at high energy phase transitions might still be present and find that either they are very unlikely to form at all, or space is effectively simply connected on scales up to the horizon size.

Keywords

COSMIC CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
PHASE TRANSITIONS
DEFECT CONJECTURE
SIMPLY CONNECTED
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
NO DEFECT
TOPOLOGY

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