Cosmic strings and Natural Inflation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-10-27 v1
Abstract
In the present work we discuss cosmic strings in natural inflation. Our analysis is based entirely on the CMB quadrupole temperature anisotropy and on the existing upper bound on the cosmic string tension. Our results show that the allowed range for both parameters of the inflationary model is very different from the range obtained recently if cosmic strings are formed at the same time with inflation, while if strings are formed after inflation we find that the parameters of the inflationary model are similar to the ones obtained recently.
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@article{arxiv.0706.2747,
title = {Cosmic strings and Natural Inflation},
author = {Grigoris Panotopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.2747},
year = {2010}
}