Generality of topological inflation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/1/020MaRDI QIDQ4467262zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nobuyuki Sakai

Publication date 9 June 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0307092

zbMATH Keywords

horizonfalse vacuumlarge initial inhomogeneity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Many authors claimed that a large initial inhomogeneity prevents the onset of inflation and therefore inflation takes place only if the scalar field is homogeneous or appropriately chosen over the horizon scale. We show that those arguments do not apply to topological inflation. The core of a defect starts inflation even if it has much smaller size than the horizon and much larger gradient energy than the potential, as long as the vacuum expectation value is large enough ($gtrsim0.3mpl$) and the core is not contracting initially. This is due to stability of false vacuum.

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