The Big Bang as a Phase Transition
arXiv:gr-qc/0310067 · doi:10.1142/S0217751X05022299
Abstract
We study a five-dimensional cosmological model, which suggests that the universe bagan as a discontinuity in a (Higgs-type) scalar field, or alternatively as a conventional four-dimensional phase transition.
10 pages, 2 figures; typo corrected in equation (18); 1 reference added; version to appear in International Journal of Modern Physics A