Breaking Cosmic Strings without Monopoles
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Breaking cosmic strings without monopoles.
It is shown that topologically stable cosmic strings can, in fact, appear to end or to break, even in theories without monopoles. This can occur whenever the spatial topology of the universe is nontrivial. For the case of Abelian-Higgs strings, we describe the gauge and scalar field configurations necessary for a string to end on a black hole. We give a lower bound for the rate at which a cosmi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.75.3390