Comment on "Formation of primordial black holes by cosmic strings"
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We show that in a pioneering paper by Polnarev and Zembowicz, some conclusions concerning the characteristics of the Turok-strings are generally not correct. In addition we show that the probability of string collapse given there, is off by a large prefactor (~1000).
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0005041,
title = {Comment on "Formation of primordial black holes by cosmic strings"},
author = {R. N. Hansen and M. Christensen and A. L. Larsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0005041},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, LaTeX and 1 figure, postscript. To appear in PRD