Unification, Monopoles, and Cosmology
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- 19 May 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 44 (20) , 1361-1364
Abstract
It is shown that the cosmological problem of too many relic monopoles generated in the big bang according to standard grand unification theories can be avoided by several straightforward machanisms, one of which may make monopoles useful as seeds for galaxy formation.Keywords
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