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Cosmic strings
Abstract
Phase transitions in the early universe can give rise to a network of vacuum strings. The dynamics of strings is studied in flat space-time and in expanding universes. The cosmological evolution of strings is discussed, and in particular the black-hole production by collapsing closed loops. Estimations are made for strings of electroweak (${10}^{2}$ GeV) and grand unification (${10}^{15}$ GeV) mass scale. It is shown that the effect of electroweak strings is negligible, while grand unification strings can have important cosmological consequences. In particular, massive black holes and large oscillating loops can provide seeds for galaxy formation.
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Particle creation by black holes
Hawking, S. W. (1975) · Communications In Mathematical Physics · doi:10.1007/bf02345020 · Cited by 13,106
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Birth of inflationary universes
Vilenkin, A. (1983) · Physical Review D · doi:10.1103/physrevd.27.2848 · Cited by 998
Self-citationBlack holes from nucleating strings
Garriga, J., & Vilenkin, A. (1993) · Physical Review D · doi:10.1103/physrevd.47.3265 · Cited by 81
Self-citationBrechet, S. D., Hobson, M. P., & Lasenby, A. N. (2008) · Classical and Quantum Gravity · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/24/245016 · Cited by 46
Metadata
- Authors
- Vilenkin, A.
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1981-10-15
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 2082-2089
- ISSN
- 0556-2821 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4231256132
- Cited by
- 369
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 10.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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