General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, abstract
gr-qc/0602084

From: Nobuyuki Sakai [view email]

Date (v1): Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:03:29 GMT (226kb)

Date (revised v2): Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:28:47 GMT (224kb)

The universe out of a monopole in the laboratory?

Authors: Nobuyuki Sakai, Ken-ichi Nakao, Hideki Ishihara, Makoto Kobayashi

Comments: figure compiling error corrected, some words corrected, a reference added, 15 pages, 5 figures

Report-no: OCU-PHYS-241, AP-GR-31

To explore the possibility that an inflationary universe can be created out of a stable particle in the laboratory, we consider the classical and quantum dynamics of a magnetic monopole in the thin-shell approximation. Classically there are three types of solutions: stable, collapsing and inflating monopoles. We argue that the transition from a stable monopole to an inflating one could occur either by collision with a domain wall or by quantum tunneling.

http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602084