Publication Date:
2018-12-11
Description:
Author(s): Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Ken D. Olum, and Jeremy M. Wachter We find the leading-order effect of gravitational backreaction on cosmic strings for points near kinks and cusps. Near a kink, the effect diverges as the inverse cube root of the distance to the kink and acts in a direction transverse to the world sheet. Over time, the kink is rounded off, but only ... [Phys. Rev. D 98, 123507] Published Mon Dec 10, 2018
Keywords:
Cosmology
Print ISSN:
0556-2821
Electronic ISSN:
1089-4918
Topics:
Physics
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