Charged Cosmic String Nucleation in de Sitter Space
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-11-01 v1
Abstract
We investigate the quantum nucleation of pairs of charged circular cosmic strings in de Sitter space. By including self-gravity we obtain the classical potential energy barrier and compute the quantum mechanical tunneling probability in the semiclassical approximation. We also discuss the classical evolution of charged circular strings after their nucleation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9409005,
title = {Charged Cosmic String Nucleation in de Sitter Space},
author = {Minos Axenides and Arne L. Larsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9409005},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
12 pages Latex + 3 figures (not included), Nordita 94/38 P