DYNAMICS OF PLANAR RELATIVISTIC DOMAIN WALLS

The dynamics of planar relativistic domain walls is investigated with the help of a new method proposed by Arodz and Larsen. Two solutions are found: one is a steady state domain wall, the other is a nonstationary domain wall. They move with the same constant velocity in the laboratory frame coordinates. When the velocity approaches light velocity c, the "width" of the nonstationary wall inflates very slowly. These domain walls can disappear again soon after their creation in the early universe by moving away from our visible universe. So they would not dominate the universe completely, but keep the observed universe approximately isotropic and homogeneous.