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The influence of Grand Unified phase transitions on the evolution of the early Universe is considered. We discuss some unusual chains of spontaneous symmetry breaking during the Universe expansion naturally arising in realistic GUT’s. The problem of the baryon asymmetry generation is investigated taking into account the effects of the phase transitions. The possibility of the existence of vacuum domains with different gauge symmetries is suggested. We discuss cosmological implications of this phenomenon.
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Kuzmin, V.A., Shaposhnikov, M.E., Tkachev, I.I. (1984). Grand Unified Phase Transitions and the Early Universe. In: Markov, M.A., West, P.C. (eds) Quantum Gravity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2701-1_16
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