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gr-qc1995
Dynamics of Gravitating Magnetic Monopoles
Nobuyuki Sakai
According to previous work on magnetic monopoles, static regular solutions are nonexistent if the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field is larger than a critical value $η…
gr-qc1995
Dynamics of Topological Defects and Inflation
Nobuyuki Sakai, Hisa-aki Shinkai, Takashi Tachizawa +1
We study the dynamics of topological defects in the context of ``topological inflation" proposed by Vilenkin and Linde independently. Analysing the time evolution of planar domain…