Cosmic String Nucleation near the Inflationary Phase Boundary
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-05-23 v1
Abstract
We investigate the nucleation of circular cosmic strings in models of generalized inflationary universes with an accelerating scale factor. We consider toy cosmological models of a smooth inflationary exit and transition into a flat Minkowski spacetime. Our results establish that an inflationary expanding phase is necessary but not sufficient for quantum nucleation of circular cosmic strings to occur.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9403161,
title = {Cosmic String Nucleation near the Inflationary Phase Boundary},
author = {Minos Axenides and Arne L. Larsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9403161},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
11 pages Latex + 4 figures (not included), NBI-HE-94-21