Radially stabilized inflating cosmic strings

F. Niedermann; R. Schneider

DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.91.064010

Corpus ID: 118411378

Radially stabilized inflating cosmic strings

@article{Niedermann2015RadiallySI,
  title={Radially stabilized inflating cosmic strings},
  author={F. Niedermann and R. Schneider},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2015},
  volume={91},
  pages={064010}
}

F. Niedermann, R. Schneider

Published 2015

Physics

Physical Review D

In General Relativity, cosmic strings are well known to produce a static, locally flat spacetime with a wedge removed. If the tension exceeds a critical value, the deficit angle becomes larger than $ 2\pi $, leading to a compact exterior that ends in a conical singularity. In this work, we investigate dynamical solutions for cosmic strings with super-critical tensions. To this end, we model the string as a cylindrical shell of finite and stabilized transverse width and show that there is a… CONTINUE READING

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