2006/12/19 by N. Chamoun, Susana J. Landau, S. J. Landau +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0218271807010560
published as Int.J.Mod.Phys.D16:1043-1052,2007 · 12 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics D
arxiv created 2006/12/19 · openalex publication_date 2007/06/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Variation of constants in the very early universe can generate inflation. We consider a scenario where the strong coupling constant was changing in time and where the gluon condensate underwent a phase transition ending the inflation.