String creation and cosmology1
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I argue that string creation may have played a role in reheating the universe after inflation. For strings in four dimensions that arise from branes wrapping cycles in the extra dimensions, estimates from effective field theory show that the string tension need only fall a couple of orders of magnitude below the Planck scale in order for string creation to extract a significant fraction of the energy in coherent motion of the inflaton field. I also comment on a special four-dimensional background which involves only Neveu-Schwarz fields and offers the possibility of studying closed string creation on the worldsheet.
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