Cosmology for Grand Unified Theories with Radiatively Induced Symmetry Breaking
Abstract
The treatment of first-order phase transitions for standard grand unified theories is shown to break down for models with radiatively induced spontaneous symmetry breaking. It is argued that proper analysis of these transitions which would take place in the early history of the universe can lead to an explanation of the cosmological homogeneity, flatness, and monopole puzzles.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1220
- Bibcode:
- 1982PhRvL..48.1220A
- Keywords:
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- Big Bang Cosmology;
- Broken Symmetry;
- Gravitation Theory;
- Phase Transformations;
- Magnetic Monopoles;
- Phase Diagrams;
- Radiative Transfer;
- Astrophysics;
- 98.80.Bp;
- 11.15.Ex;
- 12.10.En;
- Origin and formation of the Universe;
- Spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries