Domain Walls as Dark Energy

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2002-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0205520v2

Phys.Rev.D67:043519,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages; appendix added; version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.67.043519

The possibility that the energy density of the Universe is dominated by a network of low-tension domain walls provides an alternative to the commonly discussed cosmological constant and scalar-field quintessence models of dark energy. We quantify the lower bound on the number density of the domain walls that follows from the observed near-isotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. This bound can be satisfied by a strongly frustrated domain wall network. No fine-tuning of the parameters of the underlying field theory model is required. We briefly outline the observational consequences of this model.

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