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Abstract
We suggest a structure for the vacuum comprised of a network of tightly knotted/linked flux tubes formed in a QCD-like cosmological phase transition and show that such a network can drive cosmological inflation. As the network can be topologically stable only in three space dimensions, this scenario provides a dynamical explanation for the existence of exactly three large spatial dimensions in our Universe.
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1 Tait Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
2 Schmid College of Science, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA
3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
4 Fakultät für Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
5 Departamento de Física da Universidade de Aveiro and CIDMA, Aveiro, Portugal