2003/10/31 by Tomáš Liko, Tomas Liko, Paul S. Wesson
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217751x05022299
published as Int.J.Mod.Phys. A20 (2005) 2037-2045 · 10 pages, 2 figures; typo corrected in equation (18); 1 reference added; version to appear in International Journal of Modern Physics A
arxiv created 2005/01/13 · openalex publication_date 2005/04/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study a five-dimensional cosmological model, which suggests that the universe began as a discontinuity in a scalar (Higgs-type) field, or alternatively as a conventional four-dimensional phase transition.