Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2005-12-09
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
10 pages
Scientific paper
It is possible that the expansion of the universe began with an inflationary phase, in which the inflaton driving the process also was a Higgs field capable of stabilizing magnetic monopoles in a grand-unified gauge theory. If so, then the smallness of intensity fluctuations observed in the cosmic microwave background radiation implies that the self-coupling of the inflaton-Higgs field was exceedingly weak. It is argued here that the resulting broad, flat maximum in the Higgs potential makes the presence or absence of a topological zero in the field insignificant for inflation. There may be monopoles present in the universe, but the universe itself is not in the inflating core of a giant magnetic monopole.
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