https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201819108004
Evolution of a domain wall in expanding universe: inflation and after it
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Physics Department and Laboratory of Cosmology and Elementary Particle Physics, Novosibirsk State University, Pirogova st. 2, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
2
Theory Division, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya st. 25, Moscow, 117218 Russia
3
Theory Division, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, akademika Lavrentieva prospect 11, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
* e-mail: dolgov@fe.infn.it
** e-mail: sgodunov@itep.ru
*** e-mail: a.s.rudenko@inp.nsk.su
Published online: 31 October 2018
We study the evolution of thick domain walls in the expanding universe. We have found that the domain wall evolution crucially depends on the time-dependent parameter C(t) = 1/(H(t)δ0)2, where H(t) is the Hubble parameter and δ0 is the width of the wall in flat space-time. For C(t) > 2 the physical width of the wall, a(t)δ(t), tends with time to constant value δ0, which is microscopically small. Otherwise, when C(t) ≤ 2, the wall steadily expands and can grow up to a cosmologically large size.
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